1 day ago · A strain of bird flu spreading among dairy cows in Nevada has infected a dairy worker in the state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.. The patient, who’d been working ...

5 hours ago · A dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu—genotype D1.1—that has newly spilled over to cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed.

9 hours ago · At least 68 people in the U.S. have been reported infected with bird flu in the last year, according to CDC data. All but a small handful worked closely with cows or poultry. Most caught the B3.13 ...

1 day ago · NEW YORK (AP) — A dairy worker in Nevada was infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has been spreading in U.S. herds since last year, federal health officials said Monday.. The illness was considered mild. The person’s main symptom was eye redness and irritation, similar to most bird flu cases associated with dairy cows.

1 day ago · That strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus, called D1.1 by scientists, is different from a previous variant called B3.13 which had infected at least 40 dairy workers in the U.S. to date.

18 hours ago · The Nevada dairy worker was exposed at a farm in Churchill County, in the west central part of the state, state health officials said. CDC officials said there is no evidence the virus has spread ...

13 hours ago · A Nevada dairy worker contracted a new strain of bird flu, distinct from the one affecting U.S. herds since last year. The infection was mild, with symptoms like eye irritation, and the individual ...

1 day ago · The Nevada infection involved a dairy worker with exposure to dairy cows experiencing an outbreak of bird flu. The mutation had also previously been found in a human case in Chile in 2023, the CDC ...

1 day ago · New strain of bird flu is detected in a Nevada dairy worker, CDC says While the risk to the general public is low, the CDC says bird flu poses a greater threat to people with close or prolonged ...

23 hours ago · NEW YORK (AP) — A dairy worker in Nevada was infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has been spreading in U.S. herds since last year, federal health ...