Doctors Describe Texas Dairy Farm Worker's Case of Bird Flu

FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors in Texas are describing the only known human case of H5N1 avian flu connected to the ongoing outbreak of the disease in dairy cows. 

Bird flu in humans remains extremely rare, but in the hundreds of cases documented worldwide over the past few years, about half proved fatal -- upping scientists' concerns about the possibility that an easily transmitted human bird flu might one day emerge.

The unidentified Texas man, a dairy farm worker, appears to have been lucky: His case of H5N1 amounted to little more than a case of conjunctivitis, an inflammatory "pinkeye" that resolved after antibiotic treatment.

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