The CDC says a Colorado state prison inmate is the first person to have tested positive for bird flu in the latest U.S. outbreak.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday evening that the man who tested positive had been in a prerelease program and was helping. The man, who was under age 40, reported fatigue for a few days but has since recovered, state health and CDC officials said in a statement.
Agriculture officials have reported an outbreak on one Montrose County farm with 58,000 broiler breeder chickens.Farmers struggle to keep chickens and turkeys safe from flu that’s killed 7 million this year Signals that could raise the public health risk might include multiple reports of infections in people exposed to birds, or identification of spread from one infected person to a close contact. The CDC also is monitoring the bird flu virus for genetic changes, which could indicate the virus is adapting to spread more readily from birds to people or other mammals.
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