The Agriculture Department said a pig in Oregon tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus. NBC News’ Berkeley Lovelace Jr. details how it was found and why it is concerning.
California health officials on Tuesday reported a possible case of bird flu in a child with mild symptoms. The child lives in Alameda County, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, and tested positive for the virus despite having no known contact with an infected animal. Officials with the California Department of Public Health said in a news release that they are investigating whether the child could have been exposed to wild birds.
Such infections remain rare, however, and health officials maintain that the risk to the public is very low. In the case of the California child, tests for other respiratory viruses also came back positive at the same time, so health officials said those viruses could have caused the child's symptoms. The child's family members were confirmed to have the same common respiratory viruses, and they are being treated with preventive medication, according to the officials' news release.
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