A woman in Wyoming was admitted to the hospital with H5N1 bird flu, according to health officials, that she was probably infected by the treatment of sick birds in a herd in the back yard.
After A statement by the Wyoming Public Ministry of HealthThe woman is a “older adult” and has “other health states” that you may have made more susceptible to the disease. It is treated in another state.
This marks the first human case of bird flu in Wyoming and the 70th people in the United States since 2024 US Center for Disease Control and Prevention website Only 68 human cases lists on his website, and this case is not yet taken up, which was announced in a poultry worker from Ohio at the beginning of this week.
She is also the fourth person in North America who was taken to the hospital with the illness. A person in Louisiana died of the infection.
It is not clear from herds of dairy.
According to the US Agriculture Ministry, 968 herds of dairy cattle were infected in 16 countries – this includes the herd in Arizona, which was reported at the beginning of this week.
“Although this is a significant development, since the activity of bird flu is monitored in Wyoming and throughout the country, this is not of the opinion that most of the Wyoming residents requires a high level of concern,” said Dr. Alexia Harrist, State Health Officer and State Epidemiologist with the Ministry of Health of Wyoming.
H5N1 was reported in wild birds in Wyoming. Infections were also reported in the state's commercial poultry and dairy cattle.
Harrist and the CDC state that there is no evidence of a transfer of the virus from humans to person, and the risk of the general public remains low.
She recommended that people do not eat raw or boiled eggs, meat or other animal products that they avoid contact with wild birds and do not touch any sick or dying wild or domestic birds. She also said that people shouldn't drink raw milk or raw milk milk products.