Ohio’s Department of Health confirmed on Saturday that a state farmer was downloaded from the hospital after being ill bird fluBy marking the North -American Fourth who has been hospitalized with the H5N1 virus.
“The individual had respiratory symptoms. He was once hospitalized and since then he has been released,” a spokesman for Ohio’s Health Department told CBS News in an email on Saturday.
Ohio authorities had previously refused to spread the state of their bird flu, which was first announced earlier this week in a man who had contact with the sick corral birds.
Hospitalization news comes one day after Wyoming announced the Third Hospitalization in the United States From the influenza of birds, linked to the exhibition to an infected herd in the yard.
The Wyoming Department of Health rejected on Saturday publishing details of the patient’s status, which is hospitalized in neighboring Colorado.
“We usually do not provide information on the patient’s condition due to privacy problems,” said spokesman Kim Deti in an email to CBS News.
Det said that the hospitalization in Colorado occurred in the last two weeks, “only a couple of days” after they had been exposed to the sick corral birds in his home in Platte de Wyoming County.
The vast majority of human cases They have been blamed for direct and often intensive exposure to sick cows or birds.
The data reported so far by the CDC of the test laboratories suggest that this winter Go out of registration The flu is being driven by seasonal strains of the virus, not a human spread to human of a bird flu strain.
However, investigations into a good number of human bird cases in the United States have not been able to identify a source of how they can be sick.
U.S. bird flu hospitalization was reported last year at Missouri, although health officials think the patient tested positive while hospitalized for other reasons, not for the flu birds. A second hospitalization was later reported to Louisiana, in a patient who died of the virus.
What voltage of the birds influenza sick of new cases?
It is unclear which strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus caused the cases of Ohio and Wyoming. Answering this question has been a focus of experts and health officials in previous cases, as they monitor the evolution of the virus.
Federal authorities usually take samples of the virus and analyze them to worry about mutations that can increase the risk of the propagation of the virus between humans or causing more serious diseases.
A spokesman for the Ohio Health Department said the information was not immediately available. Wyoming has also not confirmed the genotype of his case, although the state veterinarian says that the herds in the county where the patient had recently lived was positive for strain B3.13 of the virus.
A spokesman for the disease and prevention control centers did not immediately respond to a request for commentary on whether it had occurred for these cases.
Many human cases of bird flu in the United States have so far been in dairy workers after working with sick cows infected by the B3.13 strain of the H5N1 virus.
Scientists suspect that B3.13 is less serious For humans. Until recently, it had been the only bird flu strain detected between the dairy herds and on some nearby poultry farms.
But a new strain called D1.1 It has grown to dominate the propagation between the wild migratory birds in recent months. This strain has also contributed to an increase in overflows from wild birds to poultry herds that have increased egg prices across the country.
D1.1 He was also behind the first U.S. fatality confirmed by the bird flu, the patient of Louisiana. A child in Canada was also hospitalized with D1.1 last year.
D1.1 It has also been extended at least twice in recent weeks, from birds to lactian herds, the United States Department of Agriculture confirmed On Friday, Dashing hopes that the overflowing lactis outbreaks B3.13 at the end of 2023 would be unique.