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The Guardian - US
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Melody Schreiber

Third person tested positive for bird flu in the US, CDC says

Dairy cattle feed at a farm near Vado, New Mexico, in March 2017.
Dairy cattle feed at a farm near Vado, New Mexico, in March 2017. Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

A third person has now tested positive for H5N1 in the US, the second case to be detected in Michigan, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday.

A farm worker who had contact with sick cows tested positive for the virus. This new case does not seem to indicate human-to-human transmission of the highly pathogenic avian flu, as it was detected on a different farm from the previous Michigan case, officials said.

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