Health officials say there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious Missouri infection.
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The illness reported last month was different from the 30 other bird flu infections in people in the U.S. so far this year. Those cases have been in farmworkers who had contact with infected dairy cows or chickens.There was no known contact with an infected animal in the Missouri case, but health officials said Thursday that’s the only remaining explanation.in the U.S. among wild birds, poultry, cows and a number of other animals.
Few details have been released about the Missouri case. The person had preexisting health problems and was hospitalized in late August. The patient was given a test for flu that was positive for influenza A, a broad virus category. Further testing found partial genetic sequences similar to bird flu viruses from U.S. dairy cows.
They did complicated blood testing of the patient, five hospital workers, and a person described as a “household contact” of the patient — looking for antibodies that would serve as proof of a past infection. The household contact got a stomach illness at the same time as the patient, but was not initially tested.
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