{"id":135502,"date":"2024-12-10T17:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135502"},"modified":"2024-12-10T17:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:23:55","slug":"arizona-confirms-2-avian-flu-infections-as-california-probes-second-potential-case-in-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135502","title":{"rendered":"Arizona confirms 2 avian flu infections as California probes second potential case in a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) on December 6 reported the state&#8217;s first human avian flu patients, both of whom were exposed to infected poultry at a commercial farm in Pinal County.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the cases would push the national total to 60 and the number of state reporting human cases to eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/directorsblog.health.azdhs.gov\/news-release-avian-influenza-update\/\">statement<\/a>, the ADHS said both patients had mild symptoms, received treatment, and have recovered. It added that two avian flu outbreaks have recently been reported in the state: one at a Pinal County layer farm that had more than 790,000 birds and the other in a backyard flock in Maricopa County that has 490 birds.<\/p>\n<h3>Potential second case in a California child<\/h3>\n<p>Meanwhile, health officials in Marin County, California, in a December 6 <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.marinhhs.org\/public-health-status-update-12062024\">public health update<\/a>, first reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-12-07\/possible-h5n1-case-in-marin-co-child-source-of-infection-unknown\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>, said over the past week it has been investigating a possible avian flu case involving a child and is working with the California Department of Public Health and the CDC to confirm the findings and determine how the child may have been exposed.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, it would be California&#8217;s second unexplained avian flu infection in a child. California\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/avian-influenza-bird-flu\/california-reveals-suspected-avian-flu-case-child-mild-symptoms\">first case<\/a>, in Alameda County, which also marked the nation&#8217;s first H5 case in a child, was detected through the state&#8217;\u2019s flu surveillance system. It was first reported on November 19 and was confirmed by CDC testing a few days later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/avian-influenza-bird-flu\/arizona-confirms-2-avian-flu-infections-california-probes-second-potential\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) on December 6 reported the state&#8217;s first human avian flu patients, both of whom were exposed to infected poultry at a commercial farm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135502\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}