Texas reported its first human case of avian influenza, also known as the bird flu, on Monday, April 1.
In fact, the first positive case inTexashappened to be from earlier this year. Fortunately, symptoms were mild and further spread was not found to have happened. Nearly half of all positive cases in America contain the H5N1 strain outlined inCornell's report. cdc.gov How serious is the bir...
A human case of H5 bird flu in the U.S. has been identified in Michigan. This is the second case as a result of a multistate outbreak in dairy cows. As with the first case in Texas, this individual works on a dairy farm where the virus has been identified in cows. Similiar to th...
Bird flu found in Texas, unrelated to East Coast or Asian varieties
Doctors in Texas are describing the only known human case of H5N1 avian flu connected to the ongoing outbreak of the disease in dairy cows.
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Cohen said the human who contracted avian flu, discovered last week in Texas, works with dairy cows. They "had mild symptoms; they're doing well and recovering," she added. Cohen went on to say that the CDC and the U.S. government were "taking this situation very seriously and closel...
Gray's team detected signs of prior bird flu infections in workers from twodairy farmsthat had outbreaks in Texas earlier this year. They analyzed blood samples from 14 farmworkers who had not been tested for the virus and found antibodies against it in two. This is a nearly 15% hit rate...
Two farms in Texas and two farms in Kansas confirmed cases of bird flu in dairy cows. The animals in this picture are not from those farms.Iain Farrell via Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0 DEED “[The virus] has only been found in milk that is grossly...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said Monday they have met with state health leaders in Georgia and around the country, telling them to be prepared for more human cases of bird flu after a dairy worker in Texas was being treated for the virus. ...