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Over 9 million people have been infected with the annual flu this season and over 100,000 have become sick enough to be hospitalized. According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services ...

NBC News Medical Contributor Dr. Kavita Patel speaks with Gadi Schwartz about the difference in symptoms between a cold and the flu and explains the CDC's urge for faster testing to find human ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

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At the height of annual flu season, U.S. health officials on Thursday said clinicians should more quickly ensure people who are ill don't have bird flu. While the risk to the general public ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released an advisory recommending clinicians expedite subtyping of type A influenza samples from hospitalized patients, particularly individuals in ...

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The CDC has confirmed the positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco. City health officials first reported on a presumptive case in a child on Jan. 10 and continue ...