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Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...

SAN FRANCISCO ... for influenza A. As part of SFDPH enhanced surveillance, the specimen was subsequently tested for H5N1." It is not yet clear how the child contracted bird flu.

Health officials in San Francisco announced Friday that they are investigating a presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu that was found ... been tested for COVID-19, influenza and RSV based on symptoms ...

San Francisco reported its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a resident. According to the San Francisco Department of Public Health, the virus was detected in a child. The child has fully recovered.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco health officials said Friday that a presumptive case of H5N1 ... for influenza. As part of an enhanced surveillance, the child was tested for bird flu.

CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because they are seeing more H5N1 patients whose illness they cannot track ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...