The article highlights the detection of H5N1 bird flu in dairy cattle in the U.S. and the confirmed human infection in a farm worker in Texas, U.S. underscoring the need for clinicians to consider H5N1 bird flu in individuals with respiratory symptoms who have had contact w...
People in multiple US states tested positive for bird flu this year, raising concerns about the pandemic potential of the virus
Bird flu has seen a resurgence in the U.S. this year, with California leading the pack. Since the Department of Agriculture detected the virus indairy herds in March, more than50 people have tested positive for it, with 34 reportedcases in Californiaalone. Last month, a Californian became ...
The H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds and is causing outbreaks in U.S. poultry and dairy farms, the CDC says. There have been outbreaks in 443 U.S. dairy herds, and 48 states have reported outbreaks in poultry. While the public health risk is still lo...
Bird flu is mostly a threat to birds and doesn’t spread easily among people. But a 2024 outbreak affected dairy cows and people who work in the dairy and poultry industries in the United States. There have been very few cases of human-to-human transmission during bird flu outbreaks. The...
Nov. 25, 2024 — Bird flu is becoming a very human concern — one you shouldn’t ignore. This year there have been 55 human cases of bird flu reported in the U.S., including one case in California where a child was infected, according to the CDC. As the spread continues and the ...
For the first time, the CDC confirms a person infected with bird flu in the U.S. has acute respiratory symptoms. It is the third human case tied to the dairy cattle H5N1 outbreak and the second case in a dairy farm worker in Michigan.May 31, 2024 ...
Two people have tested positive for avian influenza after being exposed to cows thought to be infected with the virus
H5N1 bird flu has beenspreading widelyin the U.S. among wild birds, poultry, cows and a number of other animals. This year, 46 people in the U.S.—mostly farmworkers—have tested positive with mostly mild symptoms. In Canada, about three dozen people who had been in contact with the ...
include testing asymptomatic people with high-risk exposure to avian flu, and during the summer, it instructed hospitals to continue subtyping flu viruses as part of the nationwide monitoring effort, instead of the normal ramping down of surveillance at the end of flu season,” the spokesperson ...