Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close contact of an avian flu patient in Missouri also fell ill at the same time but it is unlikely there was any human-to-human ...

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A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had yet to identify “a clear source” of infection in a Missouri patient who tested positive for the bird flu virus, the agency ...

Sept. 14 (UPI) --A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the same time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...