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

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms.

The risk to the general public from bird flu is low, and there has been no further evidence of person to person spread, the agency said. Influenza A-positive patients, particularly those in an intensive care unit,