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Now 7 Bird Flu Cases: Poultry Workers in Colorado Presumed Infected


“Who’s the guy in the robe?”

The robbed figure represents fear and death. The very thing the Establishment is trying to push on us.

And this hooded figure will keep writing numbers of bird flu cases on the wall, hoping that the higher it gets, the more afraid we’ll get.

But it won’t work.

This time the story is that three people working in the poultry industry in Colorado are believed to have caught bird flu.

This brings the total number of bird flu cases in the U.S. to 7.

USA Today reports:

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Three poultry workers in northeast Colorado are presumed to have fallen ill with bird flu as more human cases sprout across the U.S., state and federal health officials said Friday.

The three workers were working to depopulate chickens at an egg-laying facility experiencing an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza, which has been circulating in wild birds and has caused multi-state outbreaks in dairy cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Colorado epidemiologists suspected the poultry workers’ infections to be a result of working directly with infected poultry, the state Department of Public Health and Environment said.

The workers have exhibited mild symptoms that include conjunctivitis, or pink eye, and common respiratory infection symptoms, state officials said. None of the workers were hospitalized.

Before Friday, four people, all dairy workers, had fallen ill with bird flu this year, with one case in Texas, two cases in Michigan and a fourth case in northeast Colorado, identified in early July. With the three Colorado workers, there are now seven cases of bird flu in the U.S. The three cases are the first to happen at the same place.

Officials have been worried about the spillover of avian influenza to humans. Initially the influenza was believed to have come from wild birds before spreading to chickens and cows. The CDC says risk remains low to the public.

CBS News adds:

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there have been bird flu outbreaks confirmed in 152 cattle herds so far this year.

The CDC said the risk to the public from bird flu remains low, noting that “there are no signs of unexpected increases in flu activity otherwise in Colorado, or in other states affected by H5 bird flu outbreaks in cows and poultry.”

However, it added that “human infections with this novel influenza virus (and others) are concerning because of the potential to cause severe disease.”

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Federal officials are considering if and when to deploy 4.8 million doses of bird flu vaccine. Finland announced last month it would offer shots to workers who might be exposed to the virus.

Meanwhile in Australia, someone’s done the math.

Turns out, the chances of getting it and dying from it is beyond rare and more rare than the coronavirus.

Pray their plans fail.

Call it down.



 

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