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

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

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 ...

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

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

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 Reports Bird Flu in a Patient Without a Known Risk Previous human infections occurred in workers on farms. But community transmission of the virus remains unlikely for now, experts said.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

And multi-agency finger-pointing has not provided clarity about why the meat wasn’t donated or what finally became of the ...