{"id":6582,"date":"2024-05-14T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:29:39","slug":"dozens-of-colorado-dairy-farm-workers-monitored-for-bird-flu-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/05\/14\/dozens-of-colorado-dairy-farm-workers-monitored-for-bird-flu-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Colorado dairy farm workers monitored for bird flu symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/dozens-colorado-dairy-farm-workers-monitored-avian-bird-flu-symptoms\/\">CBS News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment confirmed Friday that approximately 70 dairy farm workers are currently being monitored for possible symptoms of avian flu.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 70 workers were recently exposed to the virus while employed at two Colorado dairy farms. Neither the farms or the workers have not been identified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of the workers are reporting symptoms of infection at this time, a CDPHE spokesperson confirmed. The agency will coordinate testing for any of the workers who do report symptoms and ensure&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/treatment\/whatyoushould.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flu antiviral drugs<\/a>&nbsp;are available to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture first detected bird flu in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ag.colorado.gov\/animals\/reportable-diseases\/avian-influenza\/hpai-in-dairy-cattle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a Colorado dairy herd<\/a>\u00a0on April 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/dozens-colorado-dairy-farm-workers-monitored-avian-bird-flu-symptoms\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment confirmed Friday that approximately 70 dairy farm workers are currently being monitored for possible symptoms of avian flu.&nbsp; The 70 workers were recently exposed to the virus while employed at two Colorado dairy farms. Neither the farms or the workers have not been identified.&nbsp; None [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}