The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have results later this month that provide more insight into how a ...

Chances are low that human-to-human spread of bird flu occurred in a group of people who were exposed to a patient infected ...

A routine flu screening in late summer found the H5N1 virus in a Missouri patient. Unlike the other reported cases of avian ...

U.S. health officials have run into obstacles in their efforts to determine whether a Missouri person infected with H5N1 bird flu passed the virus on to others, causing a delay that will likely ...

Meanwhile, a person who lives with the Missouri patient also became sick but was not tested for the flu at the time. The ...

Partial genetic sequences from the virus in the Missouri patient were similar to the same segments in viruses isolated from U ...

The H5N1 bird flu has been spreading widely among wild birds, poultry, cows and a growing number of other animals NBC Universal, Inc. Health officials on Thursday said they don’t know how a ...

A total of 94 healthcare workers were possibly exposed to the state's first human bird flu case, and the nation's first ...

And while DHSS has been communicating with, and receiving assistance from, the CDC, the state has not invited the federal agency to investigate on the ground in Missouri — a move that some ...

Partial genetic sequences from the virus in the Missouri patient were similar to the same segments in viruses isolated from U.S. dairy cows, CDC officials said. "Ultimately, a full sequence may ...