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.

  • prole
    4·
    9 days ago

    I’m not sure. There is a phenomenon among conservatives where they will successfully become extremely progressive on a single issue the moment they, or someone close to them, experiences the consequences of said issue first hand (e.g. a gay child like Dick Cheney, or the countless GOP men who have forced their mistresses to have abortions, etc.).

    I wonder if there is some level of saturation of people experiencing first hand loss that would actually snap enough people out of it…

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      You know, I’d agree with you if it wasn’t for the people who were literally in the hospital dying of COVID yelling how it’s fake news right up until they drowned in their own goo.

      That seriously shook my opinion that a human could typically at least be counted on to do the right thing when they were going to die if they didn’t.