Genetic analysis of a bird flu virus detected in a person in Missouri who didn’t previously have contact with animals offers ...

An individual from Missouri with no known exposure to risk factors got infected, and a close contact developed symptoms but ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week reported two more pediatric flu deaths for the 2023-24 season ...

State health and agriculture officials said Monday they detected no trace of bird flu after testing all dairy herds across 95 licensed farms.

In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first ...

That  human case of A(H5) avian flu in Missouri that had no known contact with poultry or other animals has been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Public health officials are still trying to determine how a Missouri resident contracted bird flu without having any contact ...

This year in the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu. Nine of those became ...

The current public health threat of avian influenza may be low, but the virus circulating on farms could mutate to become ...

"The widespread detection of influenza A(H5N1) virus in wastewater from 10 U.S. cities is troubling," report authors say. Meanwhile, the CDC says the human bird flu case in Missouri remains a mystery.

Disease investigators have not been able to determine how a person in Missouri with no known exposures to animals or poultry became infected with an H5 bird flu virus.