U.S. bird flu hospitalizations rise to 4 after Ohio discloses case
Ohio’s health department confirmed Saturday that a farmer in the state was discharged from hospital after falling ill Bird flumarks the fourth American who has been hospitalized for H5N1 virus.
“The person has respiratory symptoms. He has been hospitalized and has been released,” a spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Health told CBS News in an email Saturday.
Authorities in Ohio have previously declined to disclose the status of its bird flu case, which first announced a man in contact with sick poultry earlier this week.
Wyoming announced the hospitalization is Third hospitalization in the United States From bird flu, it is associated with exposure to infected backyard flocks.
Wyoming’s health department fell Saturday to release details of the patient’s identity, which was hospitalized in neighbouring Colorado.
“We usually don’t provide information about the patient’s condition due to privacy concerns,” spokesman Kim Deti said in an email to CBS News.
Deti said hospitalizations in Colorado occurred in the past two weeks and “just a few days” when they had been exposed to sick poultry at their homes in Prat County, Wyoming.
The vast majority Human cases Being blamed for being direct, usually exposed to sick cattle or birds.
CDC reported data from test labs that this winter Records surge Influenza is the seasonal strain of the virus, not the human-to-human-to-human drive of the avian influenza strain.
However, in the United States, investigations of a few human flu cases have not yet been able to determine the source of their possible illness.
Last year in Missouri, the first hospitalization for bird flu was reported in the U.S., although health officials believe the patient was positive during the hospitalization for other reasons rather than bird flu. Later, a second hospitalization occurred in Louisiana and the patient died of the virus.
Which bird flu has new cases?
It is not clear which H5N1 bird flu virus caused Ohio and Wyoming cases. Answering this question has been the focus of experts and health officials in previous cases as they tracked the evolution of the virus.
Federal authorities usually take samples of viruses and analyze mutations that they fear may increase the risk of viruses between humans or cause more serious diseases.
A spokesman for the Ohio Department of Health said the information was not immediately available. Wyoming also did not confirm the genotype of its case, although the state’s veterinarians say the county’s flock recently lived in the county that recently tested positive for the B3.13 strain of the virus.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention Spokespersons did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether these cases occurred.
To date, many human bird flu cases in the United States have been among dairy workers, working with sick cows infected with the B3.13 strain of the H5N1 virus.
Scientists suspect B3.13 Not too serious For humans. Until recently, it has been the only strain of influenza avians that has been found to spread between dairy cattle herds and enter some nearby poultry farms.
But new pressure Called D1.1 In recent months, it has grown into a dominant spread among wild migratory birds. This pressure has also led to a surge in spillovers from wild birds to poultry, which have pushed up egg prices nationwide.
Among Louisiana patients, D1.1 is also the first confirmed death to the U.S. in the avian flu death. Last year, a child in Canada was also hospitalized for D1.1.
D1.1 has spread at least twice from birds to dairy farms in recent weeks Confirmed On Friday, Dashing hopes that the overflow outbreak of the B3.13 dairy farm starts to start at the end of 2023 with one-time.
