Is the highly pathogenic avian influenza a threat to pets?
The American Veterinary Medical Association has issued recommendations for keeping pets and backyard flocks safe from highly pathogenic avian influenza, and the recommendations are also a useful guide ...
CDC urges hospitals to fast-track bird flu testing
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...
CDC Urges Faster Testing for Bird Flu Amid Growing Outbreak
FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care ...
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Is it seasonal influenza or bird flu? Here's how to tell
But how do researchers know that if a person tests positive for influenza A, it’s not H5N1 avian flu? “We don’t have the ability to differentiate through quick, antigen tests at this time ...
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Influenza Vaccine Shows Consistent Protection Across Varying Severity Levels of Illness in Children
Researchers conducted a test-negative case-control study to evaluate the vaccine effectiveness (VE) against severe influenza in children across eight pediatric medical centers in the United States ...
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USDA enrolls 15 more states in H5N1 milk testing program
The USDA enrolled another 15 states in a national program to test milk for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. Image: Adobe Stock Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota ...
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Influenza Vaccine Effective Against Severe Illness in Children
The researchers found that 2,710 participants (17.2 percent) had positive influenza tests and 13,018 (82.8 percent) had negative influenza tests. Of the influenza test-positive cases, 61.8, 33.1, and ...
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Families in shock begin to visit their charred homes in Los Angeles area
Officials say the two biggest wildfires ravaging the Los Angeles area this week have burned at least 10,000 homes, buildings ...
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Central Indiana is facing a surge in viruses
Recent data shows increases in five different viruses in Carmel wastewater since late fall, including norovirus, RSV, Influenza A, SARS-CoV-2 and human metapneumovirus. In southern Indiana, Monroe ...
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Multiplex lateral flow test sensitivity and specificity in detecting influenza A, B and SARS-CoV-2 in adult patients in a UK emergency department
We evaluated the real-world performance of M-LFD versus PCR testing in detecting influenza A, B and SARS-CoV-2) in the ED setting. Methods After preliminary evaluation of an M-LFD (SureScreen) with ...
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Positive flu test rate continues to climb
The influenza positive test rate was 39.9% for the week ending Jan. 11, a 9.4% increase from the previous week. There were 153 hospitalized influenza cases in Minnesota Allina hospitals. There ...
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Testing a foundational piece of any strategy to combat avian influenza
Because of this risky reality, LFTs are not commonly used for avian influenza. For the most part, the USDA National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) and the National Animal Health Laboratory ...