New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

The CDC wants Alveo to make rapid, portable A(H5) diagnostic tests "to support response efforts in the event of an outbreak." ...

No FDA-approved rapid tests exist that specifically test for H5N1, and the first near-point-of-care test for mpox was ...

A B.C. teenager who tested positive for bird flu — caused by the H5N1 strain of avian influenza — is now in critical ...

British Columbia health officials have yet to identify a likely source of the infection, though none of the teen's contacts ...

A Canadian teenager is hospitalized in critical condition with suspected bird flu, health officials reported Tuesday.

USDA will begin bulk testing milk supplies starting in states where dairy cattle tested positive last spring for the H5N1 bird flu virus. Bird flu is an increasing concern for USDA, amid H5N1 infectio ...

The CDC concluded that more bird flu testing of dairy farm employees is required. The purpose of these actions is to keep ...

The health department regularly samples wastewater as part of their efforts to detect infectious diseases. This surveillance ...

Wastewater in several Californian cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles, recently tested positive for bird flu. But ...

Canada has been testing milk and livestock, but unlike in the U.S. there has been no confirmed cases of the same strain of the H5N1 virus from the U.S. in either cattle or poultry farms in Canada.

When it comes to surveillance, PHAC said provincial and territorial public health agencies must report both “confirmed and probable” H5N1 cases within 24 hours. It said the National Microbiology Lab ...