The third case of bird flu infecting a human has been recorded, and it is the second linked to the presence of bird flu in dairy cows. The Michigan farmworker who suffered what state health authorities described as mild symptoms came into contact with infected cows, reported Wednesday. In 2022, one person in Colorado who worked with infected poultry was infected with H5N1 in the United States.
Last month, a Texas dairy farm worker was infected. Bird flu has been found in in nine states, a number suspected of being an undercount. Traces of the virus causing bird flu have been found in samples of milk sold in 17 states, according to the U.
S. . The has been mutating, with mutations the Times said “may make it more adept at spreading between species.
” “This virus is being closely monitored, and we have not seen signs of sustained human-to-human transmission at this point,” Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan’s chief medical executive, said in a statement. “This case was not unexpected,” said Dr.
Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Times said veterinarians have reported flu-like symptoms in farm workers but few have been tested. The CDC said it has tested about 40 people.
However, federal agencies are already preparing 4.8 million doses of a vaccine to fight H5N1, officials said. Although officials said there is no sign of , one expert said that does rule out such transmission, according to .
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