A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or other animals associated with an ongoing outbreak, health officials said Friday.

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But outbreaks of H5 have been reported in the state’s commercial and backyard poultry flocks this year. H5N1 bird flu has been detected in wild birds in Missouri in the past, according to the CDC.

An individual in Missouri has contracted bird flu, the first human infection unconnected to farm work in an outbreak detected in the spring when the disease was discovered among dairy cows.

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Friday it has confirmed the first case of avian influenza - or bird flu - in a person in the state.

Missouri’s first human case of the bird flu was announced Sept. 9, and it struck experts as unusual because the patient reported no recent exposure to livestock or other animals.

The first Missouri resident has been diagnosed with bird flu, and the case is important, as the patient had no history of animal exposure.

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So far, there have been 14 human cases of bird flu this year. All the patients — except the one from Missouri — had been linked to sick dairy cows or poultry.

A case of bird flu has been detected in a Missouri patient, the first human bird flu case in the state and the first nationwide in someone who reported no exposure to animals before getting sick.