Nevada Dairy Worker Infected With New Strain Of Bird Flu, CDC Says

The AP (2/10, Stobbe, Aleccia) reports, “A dairy worker in Nevada was infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the version that has been spreading in U.S. herds since last year, federal health officials said Monday.” The illness was mild, and “the person’s main symptom was eye redness and irritation, similar to most bird flu cases associated with dairy cows.” The individual “wasn’t hospitalized and has recovered, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” The new “strain had been seen before in more than a dozen people exposed to poultry, but this is the first time an infection was traced to a cow.”