By Julie Steenhuysen
(Reuters) -The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday that the state of Colorado has reported three presumptive cases of H5 bird flu virus infection in poultry workers.
“There are no signs of unexpected increases in flu activity otherwise in Colorado, or in other states affected by H5 bird flu outbreaks in cows and poultry,” CDC said in a statement.
All three individuals experienced mild symptoms, it said. The infections occurred in workers who were culling infected animals at a poultry facility that was experiencing an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu, the statement added.
The CDC is sending a team to Colorado to support an investigation, it said.
(Reporting by Devika Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
