{"id":7085,"date":"2024-07-23T18:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T23:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2024-07-24T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:42:17","slug":"bird-flu-that-infected-6-colorado-poultry-workers-is-closely-related-to-the-virus-in-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/23\/bird-flu-that-infected-6-colorado-poultry-workers-is-closely-related-to-the-virus-in-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu that infected 6 Colorado poultry workers is closely related to the virus in cows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stat<\/a> Public health experts who\u2019ve been following the\u00a0surprising spillover\u00a0<\/a>of H5N1 bird flu into America\u2019s dairy cattle herds now have all eyes on Colorado, waiting to see if a cluster of human cases there might balloon into something bigger. On July 14, Colorado officials announced<\/a> that five workers involved in the culling of 1.8 million chickens at a large H5N1-infected egg farm in Weld County had tested positive for the virus. And the strain infecting the workers appears to be closely related to the virus infecting cows in Colorado and at least 12 other states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a sixth case among the Colorado poultry workers. Almost 70 individuals involved in the \u201cdepopulation\u201d operation were tested for H5N1 after showing symptoms of the disease, according to a spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment. On Saturday, the state announced it had found a possible seventh human case<\/a>; the CDC, which must conduct confirmatory testing, is expected to receive the sample on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The six Colorado cases were all mild, with some experiencing the more traditional flu signs of fever and cough, and others having conjunctivitis, a symptom that\u2019s been seen with some of the dairy workers who\u2019ve been infected during the outbreak. But it\u2019s the first time multiple human cases have been reported on a single farm in the U.S., raising questions about whether the virus has changed or the environmental factors presented unique opportunities for it to spread.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public health experts are closely watching Colorado after five workers at an H5N1-infected egg farm tested positive. The virus infecting these workers is related to a strain found in cattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7089,"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":[37,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian-influenza","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-23-at-19.23.16.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","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=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7091,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions\/7091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}