CO poultry workers test positive for bird flu after outbreak at egg facility
Three Colorado poultry workers tested positive for bird flu amid an outbreak affecting over 6 million birds. The state declared a disaster emergency, with the CDC investigating. Public advised on safety measures.
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Three poultry workers in Colorado tested presumptive positive for bird flu after an outbreak at a commercial egg-laying facility in Weld County. The state has declared a disaster emergency due to the avian flu outbreak, which has already killed over 6 million birds and is now affecting dairy cattle. If confirmed by the CDC, Colorado would lead in both bird flu outbreaks among dairy cattle and the number of people infected with the H5N1 virus. The workers exhibited mild symptoms and were connected to culling infected poultry. The CDC is sending a team to investigate and ensure compliance with safety protocols. The general public is advised to avoid contact with sick birds or animals and take precautions when handling them. The risk of human-to-human transmission is low, and proper hygiene practices are recommended. The FDA states that the likelihood of H5N1 in eggs is low, and precautions are in place to ensure food safety. Colorado health officials are monitoring dairy workers for possible exposure to bird flu and providing testing and treatment as needed.
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11 commentsThe statements from CDPHE sound to my ear like boilerplate 'downplay' language. There are 55 symptomatic people, that's amazing. Confirmatory tests are important of course, but what a data point.
How large would the workforce have to be for 55 concurrent symptomatic (safe to assume those included have clear symptoms) people to be uninteresting?
If this is only "bird to human" infection, isn't that a notable rate of transmission? I'd think even a workforce of 1000 handling dangerous pathogens daily would be getting ill more like 10 per week over a period of time. Its alarming that 55 are ill all at once.
We are all going to be reading a firehose about physical contact vs. respiratory transmission again just like the old days. I haven't forgotten that it was something like 6 months before the government revealed that Cov-19 was a respiratory transmission despite knowing in Dec 2019.
Well that's a clever slight of hand. The virus didn't kill 6 million birds, the humans tasked with culling flocks did.
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Seems like that is a lot of people?
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