The hospitalization comes just days after bird flu cases were also confirmed in people in Nevada and Ohio. The Nevada patient was not hospitalized and only had mild symptoms, local health officials have said. Ohio's health department has not commented on the status of their bird flu case, despite repeated requests.

Two vets said they had no known exposures to animals with known or suspected bird flu, and one said they didn’t practice in a state where there were known bird flu infections am

More Americans could be unknowingly carrying bird flu, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s findings underscore how diseases can easily spread when people are asymptomatic,