By Ben Glickman
Officials said a person had tested positive to bird flu in Michigan, the second case of human infection reported this year.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that a farmworker, who had regular exposure to livestock infected with the virus, had tested positive.
The infected person had mild symptoms and has recovered, officials said. It marks the first case of bird flu detected in the state.
The avian-linked form of influenza was detected in a person in Texas earlier this year, also after interacting with dairy cattle which were presumably also infected.
Risk to the public from bird flu is still low, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bird flu cases are relatively rare in humans, but the virus has spread in dairy cows in the last several months, in addition to birds. The virus has circulated for several years in wild and farmed bird populations, and have periodically caused surges to egg prices.
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