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NAT127 – (US-MED-Bird-Flu)
UNDATED. x–15s. American Health officials confirm a second person in the U-S has been infected with bird flu. The case was confirmed in a Michigan farmworker who had regular exposure to livestock-infected bird flu. Michigan Health Department Chief Medical Executive Doctor Natasha Bagdasarian says the worker has already recovered.
(“..at this time.”) (SOURCE:ABC)

TAG: In late March, a farmworker in Texas was diagnosed in what officials called the first known instance globally of a person catching this version of bird flu from a mammal.

The Canadian Press broadcast team, ABC