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CDC can't determine how Missouri man became infected with bird flu

In California, no sign herds were infected by migrating birds

09/12/24 3:54 PM By Steve Davies
KEYWORDS B3.13 bird flu CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dairy cows bird flu Eric Deeble genetic sequencing H5N1 Highly pathogenic avian influenza HPAI Nirav Shah USDA-APHIS zoonotic disease

Federal health officials say they haven’t been able to pinpoint how a person in Missouri was infected with bird flu, the 14th case in the U.S. this year but the first that appears not to involve animal exposure.

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