Human case of bird flu confirmed in Merced County

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Merced County Department of Public Health has confirmed its archetypal quality lawsuit of vertebrate flu Monday successful the county.

On Oct. 18, it was confirmed by authorities wellness officials that determination were 13 cases of vertebrate flu reported successful the Central Valley.

The diagnosis was successful coordination with the California Department of Public Health.

On Monday, officials accidental a Merced County nonmigratory had nonstop vulnerability to infected cattle astatine a Merced County dairy farm, becoming the archetypal quality lawsuit of vertebrate flu successful the county. The lawsuit was detected based connected symptoms from nonstop vulnerability and confirmed by laboratory trial results.

According to officials, the hazard to the wide nationalist remains low.

Officials accidental the hazard of quality corruption of avian influenza is low, and human-to-human transmission of H5N1 is rare. Symptoms of H5N1 corruption are accordant with acute respiratory tract infections including, but not constricted to:

• Cough
• Sore throat
• Fever
• Runny oregon stuffy nose
• Fatigue
• Muscle oregon assemblage aches
• Conjunctivitis (eye discharge)
• Shortness of enactment oregon trouble breathing