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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday confirmed the first case of a child in the United States testing positive for H5N1 bird flu.

CDPH has informed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the case, and specimens from the patient are being sent for further laboratory analysis.

A child in Alameda Country, California, tested positive for bird flu, though there still has not been any person-to-person spread of infection.

The first case of human avian influenza in a child has been detected in California, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed in a press release on Friday.

Since the U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. began reshaping the federal health department, CDPH employees said their counterparts at the CDC have been laid off and federal data systems ...

The CDC said the child, a resident of Alameda County, tested positive for avian influenza A, H5N1, after analysis by the California Department of Public Health.