{"id":72036,"date":"2024-07-17T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/625a11bc0621207840e7e5c992cea085"},"modified":"2024-07-17T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T00:00:08","slug":"4-new-colorado-poultry-workers-have-contracted-bird-flu-health-officials-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/4-new-colorado-poultry-workers-have-contracted-bird-flu-health-officials-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"4 new Colorado poultry workers have contracted bird flu, health officials confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Four poultry workers in Colorado have been diagnosed with bird flu, health officials confirmed Sunday.<\/strong><\/li>\n
These new cases bring the U.S. total to nine since first human case of the current outbreak was detected in 2022. All illnesses were relatively mild, with common respiratory infection symptoms.<\/strong><\/li>\n
Health officials say the threat to the public is low. The virus has not spread between people, but scientists are tracking it closely.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Four poultry workers in Colorado have been diagnosed with bird flu, health officials confirmed Sunday.<\/p>\n
The new cases bring the U.S. total to nine since the first human case of the current outbreak was detected in 2022, also in a Colorado poultry worker. Eight of the nine were reported this year.<\/p>\n
Their illnesses were relatively mild \u2014 reddened and irritated eyes and common respiratory infection symptoms like fever, chills, coughing, sore throat and runny nose. None were hospitalized, officials said. The other U.S. cases<\/span> have also been mild.<\/p>\n
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A fifth person with symptoms is undergoing testing, but those results are not back yet, officials said. The workers were culling poultry at a farm in northeast Colorado, according to state health officials. All had direct contact with infected birds.<\/p>\n
A bird flu virus has been spreading since 2020 among mammals \u2014 including dogs, cats, skunks, bears and even seals and porpoises \u2014 in scores of countries. Earlier this year the virus, known as H5N1, was detected in U.S. livestock, and is now circulating in cattle in several states.<\/p>\n