The person had been in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and the risk to the public remains low, officials said.
A Michigan farmworker has been diagnosed with bird flu — the second human case associated with an outbreak in U.S. dairy cows .Related video above: Pasteurization kills bird flu in milk, doctor explainsThe patient had mild symptoms, Michigan health officials said in announcing the case Wednesday. The first case happened in late March, when a farmworker in Texas was diagnosed in what officials called the first known instance globally of a person catching this version of bird flu from a mammal.
That hasn't happened, although there's been a steady increase of reported infections in cows. As of Wednesday, the virus had been confirmed in 51 dairy herds in nine states, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Fifteen of the herds were in Michigan. Health officials there have declined to say how many people exposed to infected cattle have been tested or monitored.
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