It’s (Not) rolling my chick – The case appeared at the end of August in Missouri
This is a first in the United States. U.S. health officials announced Friday that a person had tested positive for bird flu without known contact with an animal. Until now, human cases of bird flu detected in the United States have come from the agricultural sector.
But the hospitalization of an adult in Missouri on August 22 raised concerns among authorities, who requested additional testing. The result: it was avian flu, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health authorities in the central state reported in press releases. “No ongoing transmission among close contacts or others has been identified,” the CDC said.
Experts are concerned about the growing number of mammals infected with the disease, even though human cases remain rare. They fear that high circulation could facilitate a mutation of the virus that would allow it to jump from one human to another.
An “encouraging” case nonetheless
Asked by AFP, the World Health Organization finds it encouraging “that the case was detected by the national surveillance system, that the patient was treated with an antiviral and that no other cases were detected among the contacts” of the patient, indicated the (…) - 20minutes
