Erika Edwards is a health and medical news writer and reporter for NBC News and 'TODAY.'
A strain of bird flu spreading among dairy cows in Nevada has infected a dairy worker in the state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. The patient, who’d been working with sick cows, was found to have a strain of bird flu called D1.1, which has long been circulating in wild birds. It’s different from the strain of the virus that’s caused the majority of human infections in the U.S., called B3.13. D1.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture said that 236 of 738 infected herds in that state have recovered. But the virus has wreaked havoc on poultry farms. Millions of chickens have been culled, contributing to skyrocketing prices and shortages of eggs. The dairy worker in Nevada’s only symptom was pinkeye and the individual has recovered, the CDC said. None of the person’s close contacts have become ill, the Central Nevada Health District said.
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