The patient from Missouri has recovered, but health officials are still investigating how they became infected.

US health officials have confirmed a human case of bird flu in a patient that had no immediately known animal exposure.

The patient, in the state of Missouri, was treated in hospital and has since recovered, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

It is the 14th human case of bird flu in the US in 2024 and the first without a known occupational exposure to infected animals, according to the CDC.

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Never have been, never will be.

    Republicans said COVID was just a little flu, and nature said, hold my beer, I’ll remind you how bad a flu pandemic is.

    As an example, COVID killed like .0875% of the global population. Spanish flu killed between 2.25 and 5.5% of the global population at the time, depending on which estimates are more correct.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’d love to know what the death percentage needs to be for it to go from ‘fake news’ to actual problem.

      I’d say there’s probably NO amount of deaths that could possibly cause that for those people.