Show-Me More Bird Flu Cases

This isn't quite an outbreak but something that health pros are watching very closely.

Check the latest on a very sketchy virus now adding numbers in Missouri . . .

A total of six healthcare workers have now developed symptoms after having contact with the patient, who is the first confirmed person to contract the disease with no known animal exposure.

The patient has recovered, but the case is raising questions about potential human-to-human transmission of bird flu, which primarily affects animals.

The only worker who was tested for the virus had negative results, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

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Four Missouri healthcare workers develop symptoms after bird flu exposure

A total of seven people have developed symptoms after contact with a Missouri person who had bird flu.

More health-care workers in contact with Missouri bird flu patient report respiratory symptoms | CNN

Four more health-care workers who tended to a person hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu have revealed that they had respiratory symptoms after their exposures, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bird flu investigation in Missouri grows to 7 possible infections, CDC says

A total of seven Missourians developed mild respiratory symptoms after being exposed to the state's first human bird flu case, the CDC said. Here's what we know.

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