Posted on Apr 29, 2022
The first human case of avian flu in the U.S. is reported in Colorado
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A man in Colorado is the first human in the U.S. to test positive for bird flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.
The case comes as the H5N1 bird influenza tears through the U.S., posing a low risk to humans while leading to the deaths of millions of birds. Some of the birds have died from the disease, but the vast majority of them are being culled to curb the spread.
The patient, who is younger than 40, was involved in the culling of presumptively infected poultry at a commercial farm in Colorado's Montrose County, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He is an inmate at a state correctional facility in Delta County and was working with poultry as part of a pre-release employment program.
A man in Colorado is the first human in the U.S. to test positive for bird flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday.
The case comes as the H5N1 bird influenza tears through the U.S., posing a low risk to humans while leading to the deaths of millions of birds. Some of the birds have died from the disease, but the vast majority of them are being culled to curb the spread.
The patient, who is younger than 40, was involved in the culling of presumptively infected poultry at a commercial farm in Colorado's Montrose County, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. He is an inmate at a state correctional facility in Delta County and was working with poultry as part of a pre-release employment program.
The first human case of avian flu in the U.S. is reported in Colorado
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https://www.npr.org/2022/04/06/ [login to see] /bird-flu-outbreak
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What we know about the deadliest U.S. bird flu outbreak in 7 years
Nearly 23 million birds have died as a highly pathogenic bird flu virus tears its way through farms and chicken yards. It has spread to at least 24 states in less than two months.
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Over 22 Million poultry (chickens, turkeys, ducks) raised in agriculture plus wild birds (including raptors) have died or been culled. The single reported human case was a poultry farm worker (which is not atypical for those in close contact with the critters secretions). Large outbreaks in other countries, and in 1918 in the US are because influenza virus can be transmitter between species (including swine) but appropriate sanitation measures on farms, and between farming operations can slow it down. Transmission in wild bird populations along fly-ways is less easily measured & controlled.
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