CDC calls for expanded testing for bird flu after blood tests reveal more farmworker infections

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FEDERAL health officials on Thursday, November 7, 2024, called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they did not report feeling sick.Farmworkers in close contact with infected animals should be tested and offered treatment even if they show no symptoms, said Dr. Nirav Shah, principal director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Gregory Gray, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.Every additional infection in animals or humans gives the virus the chance to change in potentially dangerous ways, said Angela Rasmussen, a virus expert at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.

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