Bird flu found in Texas; unrelated to East Coast or Asian variet

Posted on 2004-02-21 13:11:24 in Infectious Disease |

WASHINGTON (CP) - A single case of bird flu has turned up in a flock of 7,000 chickens in Texas, but the strain poses no risk to people and is unrelated to the bird flu varieties found on the East Coast or in Asia, authorities in Texas said Friday. Laboratory tests showed that the Texas variety is low-pathogenic, creating no health threat in people and killing relatively few chickens, the Texas Animal Health Commission said. The strain in animals on the farm in Gonzales County, in south Texas about 80 kilometres east of San Antonio, was identified as H5N2.

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