Missouri, bird flu
Missouri won't know whether bird flu transmitted person-to-person until mid-October, state's top public health expert said
Missouri State Epidemiologist George Turabelidze, facing mounting pressure from health experts to be more transparent while investigating the state's first bird flu case, recently gave an exclusive interview with the Washington Post.
Missouri health officials should be doing more on ‘perplexing’ bird flu case, experts say
Missouri officials are under growing pressure from national public health experts to pinpoint the source of the state’s first human bird flu infection.
Was Missouri’s bird flu case a one-off or something more? Quest for answers faces testing delay
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.
Human-to-Human Bird Flu Spread in Missouri Is Unlikely, CDC Says
Chances are low that human-to-human spread of bird flu occurred in a group of people who were exposed to a patient infected with the virus in Missouri, US health authorities said.
6 people tested after exposure to Missouri bird flu patient. What we do & don’t know
None of the health care workers or other contact have tested positive for avian flu antibodies so far — but could their illness signal human-to-human transmission?
Health workers in Missouri tested after person hospitalized for bird flu
Testing is ongoing among five health care workers and a household member exposed to the infected person who all came down with mild respiratory symptoms. A cluster of infections would mark a significant expansion of the avian influenza virus, indicating that it could transmit from person to person.
Four more health care workers reported illnesses after caring for bird flu case in Missouri
The CDC said an investigation into a human H5N1 bird flu infection in Missouri has found four additional health care workers who fell ill after caring for the patient.
Four more US health workers show symptoms after contact with Missouri bird flu patient
Four additional healthcare workers in Missouri who came in contact with a hospitalized bird flu patient developed mild respiratory symptoms but the virus was not confirmed in any of them, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
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 farm animals. Officials say bird flu transmission is unlikely.
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CDC investigating Missouri bird flu cases to see if disease can spread between humans
A routine flu screening in late summer found the H5N1 virus in a Missouri patient. Unlike the other reported cases of avian ...
‘This is not a cluster’: The latest on the Missouri bird flu case
Further testing could confirm whether the patient, who has since recovered, actually had bird flu despite testing positive.
California Reports Bird Flu in 2 People in Contact With Infected Cows
California, the biggest U.S. milk-producing state, on Thursday confirmed two human cases of bird flu in people who had ...
Bird flu kills 47 tigers, 3 lions and a panther in Vietnam zoos, state media reports
Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in south Vietnam due to the H5N1 bird flu virus, state media reported on Wednesday.