“CDC urges faster testing to find human bird flu cases”

By Erika Edwards“

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday urged labs nationwide to determine within 24 hours of admission whether people hospitalized with the flu have seasonal influenza or are infected with the bird flu that’s behind an escalating outbreak in dairy cows and poultry.”to read the full article go tohttps://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-urges-faster-testing-find-human-bird-flu-cases-rcna187870

“CDC urges doctors to speed subtyping of patients hospitalized with the flu to better track H5N1 infections”
By Brenda Goodman, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/health/cdc-urges-doctors-to-speed-subtyping-h5n1-infections/index.html?cid=ios_app

“Accelerated Subtyping of Influenza A in Hospitalized Patients”
Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network

“CDC has routinely recommended influenza testing for hospitalized patients with suspected influenza. In light of the ongoing avian influenza A(H5) virus animal outbreak in the United States, CDC now recommends subtyping of all influenza A virus-positive specimens from hospitalized patients on an accelerated basis. This accelerated subtyping is part of a comprehensive strategy to identify severe human infections with avian influenza A(H5) viruses, in addition to characterizing seasonal influenza viruses in a timely fashion.”

to read the full press release go to
https://www.cdc.gov/han/2025/han00520.html

“White House’s Pandemic Office, Busy With Bird Flu, May Shrink Under Trump”
By Brian Bennett

“By Inauguration Day on Monday, most of the pandemic office’s staff will have cleared out their desks. The office, officially known as the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, or OPPR, is losing more than half of its 18-person staff as the Biden Administration hands off the duties to a Trump Administration that has yet to fill multiple key pandemic-response positions, according to two Biden Administration officials. “

to read the full article go to
https://time.com/7207599/trump-bird-flu-pandemic-office/