Keeping an eye on avian influenza

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that a person from Missouri has become the 14th person in the U.S. to contract avian influenza, also called bird flu. This is believed to be the first case where the patient had no known contact with infected 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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