Missouri Bird Flu Case Raises Possibility of Human Transmission
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 (Healthday News) -- In a disclosure that can't eliminate the possibility that bird flu may have spread from one human to another for the first time, U.S. health officials have reported that a person who lived with a Missouri resident infected with H5N1 became sick the same day.
That close contact "was also ill at the same time, was not tested, and has since recovered," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a weekly flu report released Friday.
Still, CDC officials told the New York Times on Friday night that there was “no epidemiological evidence at this time to support person-to-person transmission of H5N1,” although more research is needed.
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