A Michigan farmworker is diagnosed with bird flu in case tied to dairy cows
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https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1252984256/bird-flu-h5n1-virus-human-michigan-cows
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The worker had been in contact with cows presumed to be infected, experienced mild eye symptoms and has recovered, U.S. and Michigan health officials said in announcing the case Wednesday.
The first case happened in late March, when a farmworker in Texas was diagnosed in what officials called the first known instance globally of a person catching this version of bird flu from a mammal.
Since 2020, a bird flu virus has been spreading among more animal species — including dogs, cats, skunks, bears and even seals and porpoises — in scores of countries.
The detection in U.S. livestock earlier this year was an unexpected twist that sparked questions about food safety and whether it would start spreading among humans.
USDA is expanding financial incentives to dairy farmers whose herds have not yet been infected with the virus, Eric Deeble.
In 2022, a prison inmate in a work program picked it up while killing infected birds at a poultry farm in Montrose County, Colorado.
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