Although the H5N1 flu is highly infectious among birds, public health officials said the risk it poses to humans remains low.
and spread across more than two dozen states has been detected in a human for the first time in the U.S., officials said Thursday.
The man, described as younger than 40, has reported only one symptom — fatigue — and was taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu, the department said. The state health department described the man as a prison inmate who was working at a Montrose County farm as part of a pre-release employment program.The state health agency and the CDC said Thursday that the risk the virus poses to people still remains low.that a mutation could present a threat to humans, only one other human case has been detected worldwide — a person who raised birds in the United Kingdom tested positive for the virus in December. The person was asymptomatic, the CDC said.
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