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 ...

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.

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

Health officials are investigating whether a person in Missouri who was hospitalized with bird flu in early September might have infected a handful of others. Testing is ongoing among five health ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.