Dr. Nirav Shah, Director General of the US Centers for Control, said Diseases To prevent it, farm workers who are in close contact must be subjected to infection control With animals infected people for testing, and treatment is provided to them even if they do not show any symptoms.
Shah added to reporters: “The purpose of these measures is to maintain the safety of workers and limit transmission H5 virus To humans and reduce the possibility of its mutation.
The study, conducted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides the most information yet about the possibility of how a virus spread Bird fluwhich was first discovered in March in dairy cows, has spread to humans.
The study indicates that the virus infected a larger number of people than the 46 farm workers who were monitored in US Until Thursday.
Almost all of those infected had contact with infected dairy cows or infected poultry.
The new directives come after… Blood tests conducted on 115 farm workers in Michigan and Colorado, found that eight workers, or 7 percent, had antibodies indicating previous infection with the virus known as flu “H5N1”.