Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:06pm BST
UPDATE 1-Minnesotans in contact with avian flu birds getting preventative drugs
(Adds details from state health department, background)
By P.J. Huffstutter
(Reuters) -...
State health officials also said the state has been expediting prescriptions for the antiviral drug Tamiflu, for farm workers and others who have been in direct contact with infected flocks in Minnesota.
No person has been infected with the highly pathogenic H5N2 strain of bird flu that has been identified on 44 Minnesota farms in 15 counties, and affected nearly 2.6 million birds in the state.
Michael Schommer, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Health, said the agency has approached 140 farm workers and others in the state who had been in direct contact with infected birds.
Of those, 87 people were advised to take the Roche antiviral medication as a preventative measure. Seventy of them have done so, Schommer said.
Of the 62 people that state health officials have followed up with so far, none of them have been infected by the virus, Schommer said.
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UPDATE 1-Minnesotans in contact with avian flu birds getting preventative drugs
(Adds details from state health department, background)
By P.J. Huffstutter
(Reuters) -...
State health officials also said the state has been expediting prescriptions for the antiviral drug Tamiflu, for farm workers and others who have been in direct contact with infected flocks in Minnesota.
No person has been infected with the highly pathogenic H5N2 strain of bird flu that has been identified on 44 Minnesota farms in 15 counties, and affected nearly 2.6 million birds in the state.
Michael Schommer, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Health, said the agency has approached 140 farm workers and others in the state who had been in direct contact with infected birds.
Of those, 87 people were advised to take the Roche antiviral medication as a preventative measure. Seventy of them have done so, Schommer said.
Of the 62 people that state health officials have followed up with so far, none of them have been infected by the virus, Schommer said.
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