Officials Don’t Know Which Farm Employs Person Who Tested Positive for Bird Flu

Authorities don’t know which farm employs the Texas farm worker who tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza, they are now saying. “The dairy worker came to one of DSHS’s field offices to get tested and did not disclose the name of their workplace,” Lara Anton, a press officer for the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) told The Epoch Times in an email. Ms. Anton said the DSHS still doesn’t know which farm employs the person. The agency and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on April 1 that a person had a confirmed case of the influenza, commonly known as the bird flu. It represented the second human case of bird flu in the United States, and the first since after the influenza began spreading in cattle....