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Bird flu reported in second Michigan farmworker; third human case in U.S.
(CBS DETROIT) - A second case of H5 influenza, also known as bird flu or avian influenza, was detected in another Michigan farmworker, marking the second human case in Michigan, and the third in the country.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says the new case was reported in a farmworker who worked closely with cows that tested positive for bird flu but was employed at a different farm than the worker did in the case they announced on May 22.
The risk to the general public is still low . . . according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
. . . The first case of bird flu in a human was detected in a Texas farmworker who was exposed to infected dairy cattle.
Bird flu was first detected in Michigan in dairy herds that arrived in Michigan from Texas, and have since been found in Clinton, Gratiot and Ionia counties.
Earlier this month, Michigan egg producer Herbuck's Poultry Ranch announced that it was laying off about 400 employees. The company said the virus impacted its hen population at some farms in Ionia County.
originally posted by: TheMichiganSwampBuck It is carried by birds, bears, cattle, cats, dogs, etc., and humans now obviously.
“Before 2020, experts thought the influenza virus posed the greatest risk of causing a pandemic, and we had limited options for creating a vaccine if that had happened,” said Weissman. “COVID-19 showed us the power of mRNA-based vaccines as a tool to protect humans from emerging viruses quickly, and we are better prepared now to respond to a variety of viruses with pandemic potential, including influenza.”
A third person has now tested positive for H5N1 in the US, the second case to be detected in Michigan, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday.
The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is nearing an agreement with Moderna to finance human trials for its experimental mRNA bird flu vaccine. The deal would include a commitment to stockpile millions of vaccines if the trials were successful, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. These “experimental” mRNA “vaccines” have already been shown to be incredibly devastating to the human population. But there will still be some that’ll line up to be injected with new material hoping it’ll keep them from getting bird flu.
Bird flu detected in Ottawa Co. dairy herd Site
Staff 06/03/2024 11:00 AM EDT
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) announced the detection of bird flu in an additional dairy herd from Ottawa County.
Testing through the Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory initially detected this case. Samples have been sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories for additional confirmatory testing.
originally posted by: Euronymous2625
originally posted by: TheMichiganSwampBuck It is carried by birds, bears, cattle, cats, dogs, etc., and humans now obviously.
Fortunately it is not transmissible from human to human. Yet. The mutation could happen at any moment.