{"id":1327,"date":"2024-09-07T11:46:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T11:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/us-first-human-case-of-bird-flu-not-linked-to-animals-reported-in-missouri\/"},"modified":"2024-09-07T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T11:46:42","slug":"us-first-human-case-of-bird-flu-not-linked-to-animals-reported-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/07\/us-first-human-case-of-bird-flu-not-linked-to-animals-reported-in-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"US\u2019 first human case of bird flu not linked to animals reported in Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0rc4lkk00043b5v5c56db1p@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A person in Missouri is the United States\u2019 first case of H5 avian influenza without a known exposure to a sick animal, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0rc4lkk00053b5vnpb0gntv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThis is the 14<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;human case of H5 reported in the United States during 2024 and the first case of H5 without a known occupational exposure to sick or infected animals,\u201d the CDC said in a&nbsp;statement. It\u2019s also the first H5 case detected through the country\u2019s national flu surveillance system rather than targeted surveillance of the ongoing bird flu outbreak in animals.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/factbox\/instances\/cm0rc4sir000f3b5vkjomvrvv@published\" data-component-name=\"factbox\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" class=\"factbox_inline-small factbox_inline-small__standard\">\n<ul data-editable=\"items\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__items factbox_inline-small__items--ul\">\n<li data-editable=\"items.0.text\" class=\"factbox_inline-small__item inline-placeholder\">Sign up here to get <strong>The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta<\/strong> every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0rc4lkk00063b5vzsjxkbat@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The case is under investigation by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.&nbsp;The person had underlying medical conditions and was hospitalized on August 22. The person tested positive for influenza A, was treated with influenza antiviral medications and is now recovered and at home, according to&nbsp;MDHSS.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0rc4lkk00073b5v9bo0vu5s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            There are no cases of bird flu among cattle in Missouri, but there have been outbreaks of the virus among poultry in the state.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm0rc4lkk00083b5v66qwy2ge@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The CDC\u2019s risk assessment of H5N1 for the general public remains low, the agency said.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person in Missouri is the United States\u2019 first case of H5 avian influenza without a known exposure to a sick animal, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. \u201cThis is the 14th&nbsp;human case of H5 reported in the United States during 2024 and the first case of H5 without a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"loftocean_post_primary_category":0,"loftocean_post_format_gallery":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_ids":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_urls":"","loftocean_post_format_video_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_video_url":"","loftocean_post_format_video_type":"","loftocean_post_format_video":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_type":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_url":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_audio":"","loftocean-featured-post":"","loftocean-like-count":0,"loftocean-view-count":532,"tinysalt_single_post_intro_label":"","tinysalt_single_post_intro_description":"","tinysalt_hide_post_featured_image":"","tinysalt_post_featured_media_position":"","tinysalt_single_site_header_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header_style":"sticky-scroll-up","tinysalt_single_site_footer_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_footer":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retirednurseblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}