MedPage Today April 5, 2024
— No new cases have been identified, however
The CDC wants clinicians and health departments to consider potential infections with the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus, commonly known as bird flu, in people with exposure to potentially infected animal sources.
The health advisory alert comes on the heels of Monday’s announcement by the CDC and the Texas State Department of Health that a farmworker on a commercial dairy farm was infected with the H5N1 virus after exposure to presumably infected cattle. That person’s only symptom was mild conjunctivitis. The case was the second one in the U.S., following a case in 2022 in Colorado.
The new case is notable because it is the first instance of presumed transmission...
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