Why fears of human-to-human bird flu spread in Missouri are overblown Hospital workers reported respiratory symptoms after encountering a Missouri patient with H5N1 who had not been exposed to ...

Bird flu detected in Missouri individual who is not a farm worker This is the 14th human case of bird flu reported this year in the United States and the first without a known occupational ...

A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or other animals associated with an ongoing outbreak, health officials said Friday.

Missouri bird flu case raises questions for scientists A week after an unusual human case of H5 avian influenza was reported in Missouri, many questions remain. The latest on what's known -- and ...

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 ...

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 Bird Flu Case Raises Prospect of Human Transmission A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported.

How did a Missouri resident contract bird flu? Until now, direct contact with infected livestock has caused all the human infections with the H5N1 flu virus during the current outbreak.

U.S. health officials have run into obstacles in their efforts to determine whether a Missouri person infected with H5N1 bird flu passed the virus on to others.

Missouri’s first human case of the bird flu was announced Sept. 9, and it struck experts as unusual because the patient reported no recent exposure to livestock or other animals.

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.

A person in Missouri has been diagnosed with bird flu — despite never coming into contact with any animals, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday.