A dairy worker in Texas has tested positive for avian influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Monday. Though the risk to the general U.S. population is low, people who have contact with potentially infected animals are at an increased risk. Here's what else you need to know.
Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a human case of avian influenza, or bird flu, in Texas.
The announcement comes just a week after the United States Department of Agriculture first announced avian flu outbreaks in certain dairy cow herds in Texas.—also known as H5N1 bird flu—and the CDC said this case is only the second one reported in the U.S. The first case was in Colorado in 2022. These outbreaks can cause issues for farmers—on Tuesday, Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., the country’s largest egg producer and distributor, culled nearly 2 million hens after an outbreak of avian flu at one of its facilities.
Luckily, however, this current strain of bird flu doesn’t seem to be mutating and making jumps into human populations in the same way as other problematic viruses, she said.
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