The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that an individual from Missouri has change into the 14th individual within the U.S. to contract avian influenza, additionally referred to as fowl flu. This is believed to be the primary case the place the affected person had no identified contact with contaminated animals.
"Why is this concerning? Because the more we see avian influenza move from a bird virus to a virus that can infect and be transmitted among mammals, the higher the concern of a virus gaining the ability to be efficiently spread from one human to another and cause serious disease," says Dr. Matthew Binnicker, director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic.
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