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CDC issues alert complete vertebrate flu case
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A World Health Organization charismatic said connected Tuesday location was a consequence of H5N1 vertebrate flu microorganism spreading to cows successful different countries beyond nan United States done migratory birds.
U.S. officials are seeking to verify nan information of beverage and nutrient aft confirming nan H5N1 microorganism successful 34 dairy cattle herds successful 9 states since precocious March, and successful 1 personification successful Texas.
"With nan microorganism carried astir nan world by migratory birds, surely location is simply a consequence for cows successful different countries to beryllium getting infected," said Wenqing Zhang, caput of WHO's Global Influenza Programme astatine a news briefing successful Geneva.
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Cows guidelines successful their pen astatine a cattle workplace successful Rockford, Illinois, connected April 9, 2024. U.S. officials are seeking to verify nan information of beverage and nutrient aft confirming nan H5N1 microorganism successful 34 dairy cattle herds, 9 states and 1 person. The World Health Organization said location was a consequence of nan vertebrate flu microorganism spreading to cows successful different countries beyond nan United States done migratory birds. (Reuters/Jim Vondruska/File Photo)
She reiterated that the U.N. agency deems nan wide nationalist wellness consequence posed by nan microorganism to beryllium debased but urged vigilance.
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Asked to measure U.S. transparency connected nan outbreak truthful far, Zhang said nan world assemblage had received regular updates and praised a determination to stock nan microorganism familial series early.
"I do deliberation nan collaboration with U.S. CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and nan accusation we've received truthful acold enables america to show nan business and to update nan preparedness measures," she said.
