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 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’s state epidemiologist said in an interview that additional testing is being conducted to confirm whether the patient, who has recovered, had bird flu.The patient did not develop the ...

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.

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

Bird flu was nearly everywhere in the U.S.—in chickens, cows, pet cats and even humans. Cases have gone down, but experts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The H5N1 avian flu is circulating in cows and other mammals. Whether it will make a permanent leap to humans is another ...

A mysterious human case of the H5N1 bird flu was recently discovered in Missouri — and experts are still working to determine how the patient was infected.. The avian flu has been circulating ...

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 ...