The CDC is investigating possible human-to-human transmission of bird flu after seven people who were in close contact with a patient in a Missouri hospital developed symptoms. While it's unclear if the symptoms are due to bird flu, antibody blood tests will be conducted later this month to determine the cause.
A total of seven people who were in close contact with a bird flu patient in Missouri developed symptoms, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, but it remains unclear whether these represent cases of human-to-human spread of the virus. Antibody blood test results, which will come back later this month, officials said, are needed to answer that question.
The virus can be transmitted through aerosols, particles smaller than droplets that can suspend the air for long periods of time. Osterholm said he would be “very surprised,” however, if any of the sick health care workers had bird flu, given that officials had a very hard time getting viable virus from the patient. Still, he said, the lack of information isn’t helping matters.
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