Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Serve as a director, officer, partner, employee, advisor, consultant, or trustee for: American Medical Association; Medical Association of Atlanta; ACIP liaison The first case, on April 1, 2024, was the first-ever known case of cow-to-human transmission of bird flu viruses in the United States and globally, and it was the second-ever documented human case of bird flu in the United States. The first US case was in a poultry worker in Colorado in 2022. The chief complaint for the first two patients in that outbreak was. The third patient had more typical flu symptoms, including a cough. All three of these patients had direct contact with infected cows.
What about beef? USDA says our meat supply is safe. Even so, they've continued testing, and on Friday, May 24, bird flu was detected via PCR in beef muscle from a second condemned cow. However, results of a USDA ground beef cooking study are reassuring. In this study, high levels of virus were injected into large ground beef patties. The patties were then cooked to different temperatures — 145° F and 160° F . No virus was present in the burgers cooked to either temperature.
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