{"id":1897,"date":"2024-05-30T19:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/bird-flu-has-infected-a-third-u-s-farmworker\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:45:16","slug":"bird-flu-has-infected-a-third-u-s-farmworker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/health\/bird-flu-has-infected-a-third-u-s-farmworker\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Flu Has Infected a Third U.S. Farmworker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A third farmworker in the United States has been found to be infected with bird flu, heightening concerns about an outbreak among dairy cattle first identified in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The worker is the first in this outbreak to have respiratory symptoms, including a cough, sore throat and watery eyes, which generally increase the likelihood of transmission to other people, federal officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The other two people had only severe eye infections, possibly because of exposure to contaminated milk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">All three individuals had direct exposure to dairy cows, and so far none has spread the virus to other people, Dr. Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at a news briefing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That suggests that the virus, called H5N1, has not acquired the ability to spread among people and that the threat to the general public remains low, Dr. Shah said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis newest case does not change the C.D.C.\u2019s H5N1 influenza risk assessment level for the general public,\u201d he added. \u201cWe should remain alert, not be alarmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the case does highlight <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/09\/health\/bird-flu-diaries-farmworkers.html\" title=\"\">the ongoing risk to farm workers<\/a>, Dr. Shah said: \u201cOur top priority now across this response is protecting the health of farmworkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This case is the second in Michigan, but the individual worked on a different farm than did the worker diagnosed last week. All three infected people so far have been treated with the antiviral medication oseltamivir, sometimes marketed as Tamiflu, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There were few other details<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>available, disappointing some experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere is no excuse for the lack of testing, transparency and trust,\u201d said Rick Bright, the chief executive of Bright Global Health, a consulting company that focuses on improving responses to public health emergencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He noted that federal officials are \u201cmonths behind sharing virus sequence data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is how pandemics start,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The identification of a third case is not surprising because farm workers interact closely with dairy cows, experts said. New flu viruses often provoke respiratory symptoms without further spread to other people, Dr. Shah said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This latest patient may have had different symptoms because of the exposure dose, a different exposure route, predisposing genetic or medical factors or a combination of those attributes, said Angela Rasmussen, a research scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Still, gaining more information about how the person was infected, and about whether the virus has evolved to infect people more readily, is crucial, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Genetic analysis of the virus infecting the worker may be difficult because the amount obtained from the patient was very low.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cBut every time the virus is able to replicate in a person, there is potential for the virus to adapt to humans and gain molecular features for replication in the respiratory tract and to spread person-to-person,\u201d said Seema Lakdawala, a virologist at Emory University in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials are monitoring about 350 people who may have been exposed, about 220 of them in Michigan alone. So far relatively few farmworkers, about 40, have consented to testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Agriculture Department announced on Thursday that it was setting aside $824 million in new funding to quickly detect cases in poultry and livestock. The department is also starting a voluntary program for producers to test bulk milk, enabling them to transport virus-free herds across state lines without having to test individual cows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Federal researchers have completed their analysis of 109 beef samples, and found virus in just one, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/24\/health\/bird-flu-beef.html\" title=\"\">reported last week<\/a>, officials said at the briefing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Federal officials could be doing more to protect farm workers and the public, experts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cVaccines from the national stockpile should be released for veterinarians and dairy farm workers willing to take it,\u201d Dr. Lakdawala said. \u201cWe have an opportunity to reduce human infections and we need to do it now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/30\/health\/bird-flu-infection-farmworker.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third farmworker in the United States has been found to be infected with bird flu, heightening concerns about an outbreak among dairy cattle first identified in March. 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