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Amid a US outbreak of avian influenza in poultry flocks and dairy cattle, the federal government on Friday announced $72 million in funding to three vaccine manufacturers to expand the production of bird flu vaccines for humans, in the event that they are needed...
The H5N1 virus has affected millions of wild and commercial birds nationwide, and in March it made the jump to dairy cows for the first time..
The Missouri State Public Health Laboratory determined that the patients virus wasnt a seasonal flu virus and forwarded the sample to the CDC, which confirmed it was a type of bird flu, or H5...
The CDC collected blood samples from the health care workers to look for the presence of bird flu antibodies, which would indicate a prior infection...
In the absence of vaccines specific to bird flu, health officials are encouraging poultry and dairy workers and other high-risk people to get a seasonal flu vaccine to help protect themselves..
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