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DENVER — Three Colorado poultry workers at a commercial egg-laying facility in northeast Colorado have tested presumptive positive for bird flu, state health officials said Friday, underscoring the need to get a virus that’s already killed more than 6 million birds and which is now infecting dairy cattle across the state under control.
In a statement early Friday evening, a spokesperson with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said the workers were culling poultry at a farm in northeast Colorado and exhibited mild symptoms, including conjunctivitis, or pink eye, as well as “common respiratory infection symptoms.” The statement from the CDPHE did not expand on what those respiratory symptoms were and Denver7 was not able to reach anyone from the department by phone or email Friday evening.
“State epidemiologists suspect the poultry workers’ cases are a result of working directly with infected poultry. The investigation is ongoing with support from CDC,” according to the statement from the CDPHE. The CDC is sending a team to Colorado to support their investigation, the CDC spokesperson said, which will include"looking into compliance with the recommended use of personal protective equipment."
People should also avoid unprotected exposures to animal poop, bedding , unpasteurized milk, or materials that have been touched by, or close to, birds or other animals with suspected or confirmed H5N1 infection, CDC officials said.
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