A person in Missouri was sick with bird flu, or avian influenza, but as of now doesn’t have a known exposure to animals in the ongoing bird flu outbreak, according to a Friday news release from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While the CDC said that the bird flu risk to the general public remains low, it’s the first time the CDC’s national flu surveillance system has detected a H5 virus, which is the type of flu currently driving the outbreak among birds and cattle in the US. The other 13 cases of H5 were detected in “targeted” surveillance of people have been in people who’ve worked directly with sick animals, according to the CDC.
The person who was sick had underlying health conditions, was hospitalized and has since recovered, the CDC reported. No other transmission has been found among contacts, and there’s been no sign of unusual flu activity in people,…
