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A woman in Wyoming's Platte County has been infected with #H5N1 and confirmed by the Wyoming Department of Health. She is currently hospitalized and has reported underlying medical conditions. She was likely exposed through her infected backyard poultry.
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The Ohio Department of Health has reported its first human case of #H5N1 for the state. The person infected was a farmworker in Mercer County and came into contact with dead infected poultry.
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An article from
@reuters.com
highlights a report from @WOAH about the United States' first outbreak of #H5N9 in poultry, detected on a duck farm in California. This farm had also already experienced an #H5N1 outbreak.
H5N1 has caused the most harm recently, H5N9 is rarer.
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ABC News reports that a duck farm in Long Island, NY will have to cull its entire flock due to #H5N1 infections. As of now, no farmworkers have reported infection. Those at the highest risks have been provided preventive medications Tamiflu and Tamivir.
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abcnews.go.com/US/long-isla...