The CDC wants hospitals to test flu patients faster as bird flu spreads in the United States. “What we need is to shift to a system that tells us what’s happening in the moment,” says Dr. Nirav Shah, CDC’s principal deputy director. The current testing delay is a real problem. Many hospitals wait days to test flu samples. By then, patients have often gone home. This makes it hard to track where they got the virus. Numbers Tell the Story Since 2022, 67 people got bird flu, with 66 of these cases happening in 2024. Most infections have been mild, … Continue reading Bird Flu Alert: CDC Calls for Rapid Testing as Cases Rise