The bird flu virus hasn't yet spread from person to person, the CDC said Thursday, releasing findings from a monthslong probe into a hospitalized Missouri patient.

Blood tests of several people who were in contact with a patient in Missouri who caught H5N1 bird flu without any known exposure to infected animals reveal at least one of them — a person who lived in the same house and had symptoms at the same time — also had the virus,

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread wildly among California dairy herds and farmworkers, federal health officials on Thursday offered some relatively good news about Missouri: The wily avian influenza virus does not appear to have spread from the state's sole human case, which otherwise remains a mystery.

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Alabama and Missouri have little to no margin for error left in their playoff hopes. The 15th-ranked Crimson Tide enter Saturday's game having lost two of their last three games and barely beating South Carolina.

Those top 10 rankings have fallen by the wayside for Alabama and Missouri. Still clinging to now-precarious playoff hopes, the 15th-ranked (5-2, 2-2 SEC) and No. 21 T