Helen Branswell on Nostr: This time last year, the US had only ever recorded 1 human infection with #H5N1 ...
This time last year, the US had only ever recorded 1 human infection with #H5N1 #birdflu, in 2022. With the confirmation of an infection in a Nevada dairyworker, there've now been 69 confirmed cases in 11 states.The Nevada worker had conjunctivitis but has recovered. He/she was infected with a different version of H5N1, a D1.1 virus. It triggered severe disease in a Canadian teen & a person in Louisiana died from D1.1 infection. But in more than a dozen known other cases, infection was mild.
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