Bird flu is detected in person who had contact with infected COW on a dairy farm in Texas - amid fears virus is poised to spillover to people

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By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Published: 18:31 BST, 1 April 2024 | Updated: 18:36 BST, 1 April 2024

A personification successful Texas has been infected pinch bird flu, officials person confirmed, aft they were moving connected a dairy farm.

The patient, who has not been named, was being treated for oculus inflammation according to reports — their only symptom.

The individual tested affirmative for vertebrate flu past week, pinch nan lawsuit confirmed by nan CDC over nan weekend.

Experts are alarmed complete nan lawsuit because it raises nan consequence of nan vertebrate flu starting to transmit betwixt humans.

But nan national Government insists nan consequence to nan wide organization is still low. They opportunity group pinch prolonged unprotected exposures to infected birds aliases different animals — including livestock — are astatine higher risk. 

Person successful Texas infected pinch vertebrate flu (cattle, banal image)

Tests revealed that an chartless number of cows person tested affirmative for vertebrate flu Type A H5N1 successful Texas, Kansas and New Mexico. Iowa is presently 'monitoring nan situation' arsenic it is besides a dairy-heavy state. It comes aft a goat successful Minnesota tested affirmative past week. Bird flu has besides been recovered successful foxes, bobcats, striped skunks, raccoons and coyotes since nan 2022 outbreak

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