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  • CDC issues bird flu health alert to clinicians, state health departments, public after Texas farmer infected

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert Friday to inform clinicians, state health departments and the public of a case of avian influenza — aka bird flu — in a person who had contact with dairy cows in Texas. A farmworker on a commercial dairy farm in Texas developed conjunctivitis last week, and subsequently tested positive for bird flu, the agency said. The positive bird flu diagnosis came after milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas tested positive for the...

  • CDC Issues Health Alert for Bird Flu Infection Following Recent US Case

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert following confirmation of a person becoming infected with avian influenza, also known as bird flu.The CDC announced on April 1 that a dairy farm worker in Texas had been been diagnosed with the H5N1 bird flu, marking only the second national case of the virus infecting a person. The only other known U.S. case was diagnosed in a Colorado poultry worker in 2022.On Friday, the CDC alert stressed the importance of...

  • Person contracts bird flu from Texas dairy cows infected with the virus

    A person is being treated for bird flu after contact with Texas dairy cows infected with the virus, state and federal officials said Monday. This is the first time avian influenza A(H5N1) has been detected in cattle in the United States, the Texas Department of State Health Services said. DSHS officials said they believe the human case is linked to recent detections of the virus found this year in two dairy herds in Texas and two in...