Washington resident is infected with a different type of bird flu

Health officials successful Washington authorities study a nonmigratory has contracted vertebrate flu, marking the archetypal U.S. quality lawsuit since February

NEW YORK -- A Washington authorities nonmigratory has vertebrate flu, and it's a antithetic benignant than what was seen successful erstwhile infections, authorities wellness officials said Friday.

It is the nation’s archetypal quality lawsuit of vertebrate flu since February. The older big with underlying wellness conditions remains hospitalized.

State wellness officials had announced the preliminary vertebrate flu diagnosis connected Thursday. On Friday, they said it had been confirmed.

The idiosyncratic was infected with a vertebrate flu called H5N5, authorities officials said. State and national wellness officials said it appears to beryllium the archetypal known quality corruption with the H5N5 vertebrate flu virus.

That mentation is not believed to beryllium a greater menace to quality wellness than the H5N1 microorganism down a question of 70 reported quality infections successful the U.S. successful 2024 and 2025. Most of those person been mild illnesses successful workers connected dairy and poultry farms.

“These viruses behave similarly,” said Richard Webby, a salient flu researcher astatine St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital successful Memphis, Tennessee. “My gut instinct is to see it the aforesaid arsenic H5N1 from a quality wellness perspective.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention connected Friday issued a akin connection that said nary accusation would suggest "the hazard to nationalist wellness has accrued arsenic a effect of this case.”

The bureau is awaiting a specimen from Washington to behaviour further testing.

The favoritism betwixt H5N5 and H5N1 lies successful a macromolecule progressive successful releasing the microorganism from an infected compartment and promoting dispersed to surrounding cells.

“Think on the lines of antithetic brands of car tires. They some bash the aforesaid job, it’s conscionable each is amended tuned for circumstantial conditions, which we don’t afloat understand,” Webby wrote successful an email.

H5N5 whitethorn person a antithetic penchant for which benignant of birds it astir readily infects, helium added.

The Grays Harbor County resident, who has not been identified, has a backyard flock of home poultry that had been exposed to chaotic birds, wellness officials said. They judge the home poultry oregon chaotic birds are the astir apt root of exposure, but accidental they are inactive investigating.

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