Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veterinarian in a milking barn (Photo by Getty Images). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a glitch in its bird ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms, as the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak ...

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CDC health data has become a lot harder to rely on this summer, and that is a problem when so many people are getting sick ...

The CDC made this recommendation after reviewing relevant literature and noting that complete testing jumped from about only two-thirds of patients to nearly all patients. The current CDC testing ...

The federal government's disease-tracking agency has paused its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox and a number of other infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a glitch in its bird flu test hasn't harmed the agency's outbreak response. But it has ignited scrutiny of its go-it-alone approach in testing for ...