CHICAGO – The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention is closely monitoring individuals who may have
been exposed to the new strain of bird flu that has been found in a
flock of turkeys in Indiana, a CDC health official said on Friday.
Dr. Michael Jhung, a medical officer at the CDC, said
there is no evidence of human infection related to the new bird flu
strain known as H7N8, but the agency and local health officials are not
taking any chances.
"There's always the possibility of implications to
human health when you see a new flu virus in animals, like we're seeing
now in turkeys," Jhung told Reuters in an interview.
Jhung said the CDC and local health departments are already implementing a program designed after last year's large bird flu outbreak in poultry, and will monitor people in close contact with infected birds.
http://www.foxnews.com/health
Here we go again folks buy that poultry now if you don't raise your own.
Bitter wind chills here in MN for the next 36 hrs. I'm ready.
4 comments:
At least the ebola threat has been declared over. In other news people are still dropping dead on the streets from Ebola in Africa but the threat is over!!!!
World News is sponsored by Obama..I think I read 9 farms had it. Not good. The farm my son works at has over 2 million chickens and they want to double that amount as they can't keep up with demand. (McDonald's is their largest customer now with the all day breakfast.) They lost zero birds last year.
Who can safely say that the feds aren't behind the chicken flu last year, and now this? Throw on a couple extra logs, Rob.
You know it, Toss on extra layers is more like it. temp indoors between 64 and 67. never higher. early this am -17
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