Hospitals should expand and speed up testing of people hospitalised with influenza to see if they are suffering from bird flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"Funding for the gift cards comes out of California's bird flu state emergency declaration funds. CDC does testing only and offers no incentives of any kind," a spokesperson for the California ...

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Now it’s more than a year later, and scientists are focused on two big questions: The CDC views the risk of bird flu to the public ... laboratory proficiency testing program, which was an ...

Funding for the gift cards comes from California's bird flu state emergency declaration funds. "CDC does testing only and offers no incentives of any kind," the spokesperson added. Nearby states ...

There is currently no evidence the virus is spreading between people, and the CDC has said ... USDA's National Milk Testing Strategy to test raw milk samples for bird flu, the agency has ...

Recently, there have been several human cases of bird flu within U.S. dairy and poultry workers. Currently, the CDC is utilizing flu surveillance systems to monitor avian influenza in people.