Like a bird flu While viruses are rampant among birds and dairy cows throughout the United States, Georgia has become the newest state for which the virus detected from commercial poultry groups, and all poultry sales stopped on Friday. Reduces further spread of illness。 Even if you can find eggs at local grocery stores, egg prices are rising nationwide.
The occurrence of animals continues to occur At least 67 people are infected with bird fluExcept for one, everything causes mild illness. Earlier this month, some died in Louisiana after being hospitalized for severe bird flu in December. It was first recorded in Japan as a case of death due to H5n1.
The United States has approved three types of H5N1 vaccines for humans, but they are not on the market. The government has purchased many millions of vaccines as state stockpiling as needed. However, as the infection increased, Federal Health Authorities hesitated to deploy medical professionals under President Joe Biden. Experts have stated that the decision is in consideration of risks and at this time the risk of H5N1 infection is still low. Distribution of vaccines to farm workers and people with high risk of infection would be a more focused strategy, but that measures could be too early. Donald Trump has begun his second term, and the decision is left to the new administration, as the Federal Health Guidance is shifting.
According to William Shafner, a physician at the University of Vanderbilt, Tennessee, “at this time, it is not an urgent need to spread vaccines to protect people from the perspective of severity and ease of infection.” Say. 。
So far, no infections from H5N1 people have been confirmed, but health authorities are monitoring viruses for gene mutations that increase the possibility of infection among people. Most of the bird flu infections are related to the exposure to animals. Forty of the 67 -known human -infected person in the United States are related to sick dairy cows, and 23 are related to poultry farms and killing. In the other four cases, the accurate source is unknown.
In the United States, human cases are mild, and most of them cause conjunctivitis. In some cases, some people have mild respiratory symptoms. Except for the Louisiana patients, everyone who had a positive reaction in the H5N1 test had immediately recovered and did not need to be hospitalized. Historically, H5N1 infections are about 50% of cases. Since 2003, a total of 954 human H5N1 infected people have occurred. It has been reported to the World Health Organization, And about half of them died. In Egypt, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and China, the number of human deaths due to bird flu has been reported most often.
These numbers have several precautions. First, many of these deaths occurred in a place where people live in the immediate vicinity of sick poultry. “In such a situation, they are likely to have been infected with a very large amount of virus,” says Shafner.
Furthermore, some of the H5N1 cases (the percentage of infected people who die from this disease) are only known, and the symptoms of bird flu are similar to other respiratory viruses. There is no doubt that it will not be detected. In the United States, it is also due to the fact that farm workers do not want to report that the workers are sick, and that workers are sick. “We are probably overlooked than the case to be detected, and it is much more likely to detect severe cases,” he said. Says Shira Delon, a hospital epidical at the Tuffy Medical Center.
