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| Michigan farmer becomes third American to be infected with H5N1 bird flu - as Biden tells vaccine makers to start preparing for pandemic |
| 2024-05-31 |
| I’ll worry when they document human-to-human transmission. |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A dairy farm worker in Michigan has become the third person in the US to be infected with bird flu in the current outbreak.
The patient suffered from cold like symptoms such as a cough, which is the first time this has been reported in relation to this outbreak, as well as watery discharge from their eyes, similar to the previous two cases.
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The patient has been offered the antiviral oseltamivir and told to isolate at home. None of their colleagues or household contacts have reported symptoms of an infection.
The case was revealed by the CDC, which said the worker had likely caught the virus from close contact with infected cattle on the farm.
Officials in Michigan urged farmers with symptoms of an infection to come forward for testing today — as the Biden administration revealed it was brokering a deal that would open the door to doses of a bird flu vaccine being supplied to the US.
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