By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — 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 who lived in the same house and had symptoms at the same time
According to the CDC, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the case of the Missouri patient with no known infected animal contact.
The bird flu virus hasn't yet spread from person to person, the CDC said Thursday, releasing findings from a monthslong probe into a hospitalized Missouri patient.
An investigation into a suspected cluster of human cases of bird flu in Missouri suggests there was no human-to-human spread. While reassuring, the news comes as more human cases are being detected.
The Missouri illness reported last month was different from the other bird flu infections in people in the U.S. this year. Those cases have been in farmworkers.
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