Doctors in Texas are describing the only known human case of H5N1 avian flu connected to the ongoing outbreak of the disease in dairy cows.
in humans remains extremely rare, but in the hundreds of cases documented worldwide over the past few years, about half proved fatal -- upping scientists' concerns about the possibility that an easily transmitted human
The unidentified Texas man, a dairy farm worker, appears to have been lucky: His case of H5N1 amounted to little more than a case ofand Dr. Scott Milton of the Texas Department of State Health Services described the case in a report published May 3 in the"In late March 2024, an adult dairy farm worker had onset of redness and discomfort in the right eye," they wrote.
They added that the man's H5N1 strain showed no evidence of mutations that might make it any less responsive to treatment with standard antivirals recommended againstThe latest data on the outbreak of bird flu among U.S. dairy cows has detected infection in 36 herds across nine states.
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