The United States Center for Diseases Control and Prevention says that the risk of bird flu in humans is low, although Illinois is preparing for the possibility.
On Friday, the Trump administration was said to be 1,300 employees under surveillance at the Center for Disease Control, which led to efforts in the country to contain bird flu. Workers’ layoffs will affect 10 % of the federal workforce.
This comes after the administration stopped contacting federal health agencies with the public on January 21 for more than a week. Preventing the temporary suspension of the Center for Diseases Control from publishing its weekly report of the weekly and weekly deaths, which included one of the three reports on bird flu to be published in the week that was published on January 21.
The Disease Control Center has been watching and responding to infection since the outbreak of the first transformed breed of the virus in the United States in February 2022 – although it is unclear how changes will affect the recent leadership and employment discounts in this monitoring.
The new US Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior indicates that he will follow the leadership of President Donald Trump in reducing the size of federal departments, which means cuts in critical agencies that regulate public health and investigate new diseases that can limit their ability to respond to the public health crisis.
While federal policy changes create uncertainty, the director of the Ministry of Public Health in Illinois said this week that the virus “is not an active risk” for humans in Illinois because no human spread has been recorded to a human being. But the state has taken steps to limit its spread among animals.
There is no known spread from a person to a person
Bird flu is the term used in the H5N1 bird flu, and the disease caused by infection with the AN bird influenza viruses.
It usually does not infect humans. However, recent human infections occurred after close or long contact with sick or dead birds and other mammals. Currently, there are 68 cases of human infections reported, with one associated death. However, 41 of those 68 cases of infected dairy cows were transferred.
According to IDPH, a person can get breathing in the virus or touching something that contains the virus on it, then touching his mouth, eyes, or nose.
To date, no transition from an overflow from a perfinenal flu is recorded. This could change if the person who suffers from bird flu is shrinking another strain of influenza, such as seasonal flu. Infections and the creation of a new virus may not have immunity, and inflammation may start from human to human being. If this happens, the anxiety of a pandemic will play its role.
“For this reason, through our statements currently and the data of the Center for Control of National Diseases, we continue to maintain that a danger to humans at the present time is still low,” Voyara said in an interview. “Our responsibility is to protect the health of our residents here in Illinois, with our partners in AG and DNR (agriculture and natural resources sections), and do everything we can and use the tools at our disposal in preparation, in the event that we have a human condition or a vision from a person to a person who appears.”
People with symptoms may be symptoms or symptoms similar to influenza such as red eye, fever, coughing, sore throat, gonorrhea, nose, muscle names, body, headache, fatigue, and shortness of breath to severe symptoms such as pneumonia. Less common symptoms of diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and seizures are reported.
CDC 909 data shows bird flu human around the world since 1997, and almost half of it has died. But it is not possible that all cases of infection or even observation will be reported, as the virus does not provide any symptoms – which means that it is difficult to determine the real death rate.
The Illinois Ministry of Agriculture issued a 30 -day comment on the offer or sale of poultry in swap meetings, exhibitions, used commodity markets, and auction markets on Tuesday in attempts to reduce the spread of the virus.
In January, Illinois witnessed a relative increase in infection. Kakadoodle, a family -run farm on the outskirts of Chicago, lost 3000 chicken on bird flu. The Lincoln Park in the affected Chicago Flamingo lost, while infections were reported in a wild goose in the province of Tazwell and Hok Asir in Dubaj Province.
The development of bird influenza
The outbreak of the 2022 virus immediately caused new monitoring due to the presence of more than 378.5 million chickens in egg position in the United States. The US Department of Agriculture said that bird flu is rapidly captured by whole herds when one bird is infected, leaving farmers without an option other than placing whole herds. This contributes directly to the recent increase in egg prices and scarcity, which reached a record record in January.
According to the inspection service on animal and plant health, more than 23 million birds were injured in the last 30 days starting from January 15, including 159 commercial pieces. Infections were reported in small mammals and birds for the first time in late 2022. The first multi -stage infection outbreak was reported in dairy cows in March 2024 where the virus was mutated, creating a new strain and showing its ability to adapt to living in different animal strains. Soon after that, the first human infection was reported.
“We have been lucky, at the present time, because there were no birds flu here in Illinois, and there are no cases of dairy livestock that were positive,” said Fuerra. “One of the things that was reassured is that we had no transition from human to human being at the national level.”
In the aftermath of the Trump administration’s contacts, the Disease Control Center published on Thursday a report on bird flu, which revealed the results of the blood tests held last September from 150 of the United States -based veterinarian who are working with livestock. It was found that three veterinarians proved positive for the virus without suffering from symptoms. Two of the injured veterinarians are practiced in states suffering from infections known in livestock, but the other injured veterinarians who practiced in Georgia and South Carolina, there are no two states with no known infection in livestock.
The report called for “the potential benefit of systematic monitoring to quickly identify the HPAI A virus (H5) in dairy, milk and humans who are exposed to livestock.”
Learning from Covid-19
Vohra said that IDPH is implementing the safety measures it learns from the Covid-19s. He said that the agency is working with local health departments and the establishment of protocols for testing, treatment, quarantine and isolation, as well as ensuring that human transfer begins in the state of Illinois.
The department has also created recently fast tests that will be able to identify the bird flu strains individually. If a person tested positively for bird flu in a fast, currently used test, the tests do not show a distinction between seasonal influenza and bird flu. Vohra said that the positive result in new tests shows not only any strain of the influenza that the person has, but even any breed of bird influenza infected with it.
Due to the discovery of infections at higher rates in the fall and spring seasons where birds migrate and spread the virus faster, state agencies issued several evidence for the general public on how to deal with influenza cases.
Tips include avoiding contact with any bird that displays the signs of the disease, maintaining dogs, cats and other pets away from the bodies of birds, and accurately cooking meat to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit.
To be more effective, treatment must start within two days of infection. IDPH urges anyone who begins to try symptoms after contacting a sick or dead bird to speak immediately to the healthcare provider.
If poultry is worked or dealt with, the public members are encouraged to visit the “Defense of the Fateh” program of the US Department of Agriculture to obtain advice on biological security practices.
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