4th case of bird flu linked to dairy cows detected in Colorado
A fourth person has tested positive for bird flu in the outbreak linked to dairy cows, this time in Colorado.
A fourth person has tested positive for bird flu in the outbreak linked to dairy cows, this time in Colorado.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that the patient, a dairy worker at a farm where cows had also tested positive for the virus, had eye symptoms and has recovered after getting the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
The case mirrors the course of illness seen in two earlier cases in this outbreak, in Texas and Michigan dairy workers. The only symptoms either developed was pink eye. A third patient, also in Michigan, did develop upper respiratory symptoms, including sore throat, cough and congestion.
All of the patients have recovered, and none were connected to one another.
“Based on the information available at this time, this infection does not change CDC’s current H5N1 bird flu human health risk assessment for the U.S. general public, which the agency considers to be low,” the agency said in a news release Wednesday.
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