Four New Bird Flu Cases Confirmed In Colorado Poultry Workers

The investigation is ongoing, but officials suspect that the workers contracted the infection while culling infected poultry at a farm in northeast Colorado. (Credit: Image by tawatchai07 on Freepik)

Four new cases of bird flu have been confirmed among poultry workers in Colorado, bringing the total number of cases in the U.S. to nine since the first human case of the current outbreak was detected in 2022.

"In coordination with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, the State Emergency Operations Center, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is now reporting a total of five human cases of avian influenza in workers responding to the avian flu outbreak at a commercial egg layer operation," the news release from Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment stated.