Advisory Board April 2, 2024
At least one person in Texas has been infected with bird flu after working with infected dairy cows, state officials said Monday, but health officials say there’s no cause for concern of a broader spread of the virus.
Bird flu pops up in Texas
According to Lara Anton, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services, the patient infected with bird flu worked directly with sick dairy cows. “We have tested around a dozen symptomatic people who work at dairies, and only the one person has tested positive,” she said.
The virus was identified as H5N1, a subtype of influenza that is circulating in North American birds, marking the second case of H5N1 found in a person in...
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