A patient in Missouri who was hospitalized after an infection with bird flu had the H5N1 strain of the virus, the US Centers ...
Federal officials are still trying to determine how a Missouri resident with no known exposure to bird flu, contracted the ...
In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first ...
A person sickened by bird flu in Missouri was probably an isolated case, federal health officials said Thursday, though they ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it has yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a ...
Mystery H5 flu case had a close contact who was ill at same time; CDC hopes blood tests will show if there was a connection.
Health officials say they don’t know how a Missouri person caught bird flu, but they believe it may be a rare instance of a ...
The Missouri case has raised the possibility of human-to-human transmission of bird flu. But officials stressed Thursday there is no evidence of other people being infected and the risk to the general ...
The risk to the general public remains low, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said in a statement NBC Universal, Inc. A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird ...
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 not known -- about the case, and why scientists are worried.
A close contact of someone with bird flu became ill on the same day, the C.D.C. reported. But the second person was not ...
A household contact of a Missouri patient who contracted bird flu also became ill on the same day, the CDC said in its weekly update on the H5N1 outbreak among dairy cows and poultry across the U.S.