The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect may have bird flu.

Filmmaker David Lynch died at 78; he announced last year that he had developed emphysema. (New York Times) And baseball broadcaster and actor Bob Uecker died at age 90; he had been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2023.

A child ill with fever and conjunctivitis in San Francisco tested positive for bird flu but had no known source of transmission.

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

Each week, the CDC publishes data on the number of flu cases in each state. This week, Georgia had enough cases to be listed among the highest states. Nationwide, nine states are listed in the very high category, including Alabama, California, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, South Carolina and Tennessee.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals treating people for the flu should test them for avian influenza within 24 hours.

A CDC survey of residents in South Bay revealed that a majority of those asked have health concerns, symptoms, and quality-of-life issues due to the Tijuana sewage crisis.

The agency says labs should accelerate testing on patients hospitalized with the flu within 24 hours of their admission.

This winter's wave of norovirus infections has reached levels that are now more than double last season's peak, in figures published Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracking the notorious stomach bug.

New CDC data indicates a rise in cases of norovirus, often colloquially referred to as "stomach flu." Test positivity has spiked.

Mr Kaseya disclosed that Sierra Leone had reported its first two cases of Mpox, intensifying concerns over the virus’s spread across Africa