Oregon confirms its first human bird flu case, the latest in dozens of cases in the U.S. this year. Experts discuss the ...

So far, there have been 52 confirmed cases of avian influenza, commonly referred to as the "bird flu," in humans in 2024. Two of the infected patients have been in Missouri.

Testing showed a Missouri bird flu patient did not infect the people around them, federal health officials said Thursday, a sign that the virus is not spreading among humans in a dreaded scenario ...

Blood tests of several people who were in contact with a patient in Missouri who caught H5N1 bird flu without any known exposure to infected animals reveal that at least one of them — a person ...

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread wildly among California dairy herds and farmworkers, federal health officials on Thursday offered some relatively good news about Missouri: The wily avian ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli and Emily Anthes A Missouri resident who shared a home with a patient hospitalized with bird flu in August was also infected with the virus, federal officials reported on ...

NBC Universal, Inc. The bird flu virus hasn’t yet spread from person to person, the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Blood testing conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that one person in Missouri with no known exposure to cattle or poultry contracted H5N1 bird flu in August ...

“To date, human-to-human spread of H5 bird flu has not been identified in the United States,” CDC officials said in a medical press release on the Missouri situation. “CDC believes the ...

Health officials say there’s no evidence bird flu is spreading between people after investigating a mysterious Missouri infection NEW YORK -- Health officials said Thursday that there's no ...

With 46 U.S. cases and alarming signs of the virus crossing species, experts warn of unpredictable risks if human-to-human ...

The Oregon Health Authority said there's no evidence of person-to-person transmission and the risk to the public is low.