The Missouri individual is the 14th human case of bird flu reported this year in the United States and the first without a known occupational exposure to infected animals, according to the Centers ...

Bird flu detected in a Missouri patient with no known link to animals So far, there have been 14 human cases of bird flu this year. All the patients — except the one from Missouri — had been ...

Hospital workers reported respiratory symptoms after encountering a Missouri patient with H5N1 who had not been exposed to farm animals. Officials say bird flu transmission is unlikely.

A Missouri resident has tested positive for bird flu even though there is no evidence the person came into contact with an animal infected with the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Missouri then alerted federal officials of bird flu. On Sept. 5, CDC received the person’s sample, tested it the next day, and alerted the public about the new case later that day. “We don’t ...

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread wildly among California dairy herds and farmworkers, federal health officials on Thursday offered some relatively good news about Missouri: The wily avian ...

A possible cluster of bird-flu infections in Missouri has grown to include eight people, in what may be the first examples of person-to-person transmission in the United States, the Centers for ...

Missouri Reports Bird Flu in a Patient Without a Known Risk Previous human infections occurred in workers on farms. But community transmission of the virus remains unlikely for now, experts said.

The Department of Agriculture has lifted the temporary import ban on all Brazilian poultry products after the South American ...

Could bird flu spread among humans? The Missouri patient represents the 15th case of the H5 avian flu detected in humans during the current U.S. outbreak.

A case of bird flu has been detected in a Missouri patient, the first human bird flu case in the state and the first nationwide in someone who reported no exposure to animals before getting sick.

A Thursday press release from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about the department’s response to the highly pathogenic ...