From Stat (via another submission): The fact that the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is still finding such individuals weeks after the H5N1

From Stat (via another submission): The fact that the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is still finding such individuals weeks after the H5N1 patient was released from hospital is raising concerns about the rigor of the investigation that the state is running. The CDC cannot send investigators to a state unless its help is requested, and that hasn’t happened. <https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/27/bird-flu-missouri-four-more-healthcare-workers/ https://www.statnews.com/2024/09/27/bird-flu-missouri-four-m...> One of the factors that strongly contributed to a previous pandemic's early spread was exceedingly poor track-and-trace epidemiological surveillance. Finding that particular failure being repeated so soon afterwards is indeed distressing.