The state of California said a child in Alameda County was inflected with bird flu and suffered some mild upper respiratory symptoms as a result, the state health department reported on Tuesday.
The child is recovering at home; and state health officials said they had no known contact with an infected animal. It's possible that the child was exposed to some wild birds, according to the California Department of Public Health.The child is also not infectious and no one in the child's family tested positive for the bird flu, state health officials said.
All have reported mild symptoms – mostly eye infections – and none have been hospitalized, state health officials said.Human infections with bird flu viruses are rare, and no person-to-person spread has been detected in California or the United States, state health officials said.People who have contact with infected dairy cows, poultry, or wildlife have a greater chance of getting bird flu, which can happen if the virus gets into a person’s eyes, nose, mouth, or is inhaled.
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