Glacier FarmMedia – Missouri’s department of health and senior services says a person hospitalized with bird flu was the first human case detected in the United States without known animal exposure.
The person, who also had underlying medical conditions, was sent to hospital on Aug. 22 and later tested positive with the H5 avian influenza strain. The infection was detected by Missouri’s state standard flu surveillance system. The U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it will study the specimen more.
The case was the first in the U.S. without known animal transmission, as well as the first case requiring hospitalization, alarming infectious disease experts.
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However, it has not been confirmed that the cause of the person’s hospitalization was bird flu. All 15 previous human cases in the U.S. in the current outbreak worked in farms and only showed minor illness.
