Erika Edwards is a health and medical news writer and reporter for NBC News and 'TODAY.'
There’s no solid evidence that bird flu is spreading among people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday amid an outbreak of the virus in dairy cows. New data from 189 of the agency’s wastewater sampling sites showed that as of May 4, an influenza A virus had been detected at higher-than-average levels in a handful of sites across the country, including in Alaska, California, Florida, Illinois and Kansas.
“We’d really like to understand what might be driving that influenza A increase during what we consider the lower transmission season for influenza A,” said Jonathan Yoder, deputy director of the CDC’s division of infectious disease readiness and innovation. A representative from one of Saline County’s major hospitals didn’t respond to a request for comment. Dr.
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