CDC Sends Team to Colorado Over Bird Flu After Governor Declares Disaster

Published on July 15, 2024

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is sending a team to Colorado after the state reported three people tested positive for bird flu. The move comes days after the governor declared a disaster over the virus in a northeast county. Three people tested “presumptive positive” for the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, the CDC said, citing the Colorado Department of Health. The CDC said that specimens were sent to the agency for confirmation. “All of the people who tested presumptive positive experienced mild symptoms and were workers who were involved in the depopulation of poultry at a poultry facility experiencing an outbreak of the H5N1 virus that is circulating in wild birds and has been causing multistate outbreaks in dairy cows and poultry,” the agency said on July 12....

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