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Headline : Dairy Workers Are the Most Vulnerable Population to Bird Flu

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By Erin M. Sorrell,ย Monica Schoch-Spana and Meghan F. Davis

The authors are public health researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

H5N1 is in a better position than ever to move between species and spill over aggressively into humans: This bird flu virus is now thought to have been spreading among dairy cows for many months, and federal regulators have found viral fragments circulating widely in the commercial milk supply chain across the United States (though live virus has not been found).

The one person we know of so far who has tested positive for infection (a mild case) was a Texas dairy worker. Agricultural workers have always been an underprotected population for zoonotic diseases, including influenza viruses of animal origin. When it comes to H5N1, the dairy work force โ€” which includes on-farm workers and milkers, people working in the milk processing plants and in slaughterhouses, truck drivers and other professionals who come onto farms โ€” is among those with the highest exposure.

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