The individual’s solely symptom was the kind of eye redness sometimes attributable to conjunctivitis, a typical eye an infection additionally known as pink eye, and is at present recovering, the CDC mentioned in a assertion. They’re being handled with an antiviral remedy to stop extreme influenza and have been suggested to isolate.

“It’s nonetheless extraordinarily uncommon for individuals to catch this virus,” says Richard Webby, PhD, the director of the World Well being Group Collaborating Middle for Research on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds. Dr. Webby can also be a member of the division of host-microbe interactions at St. Jude Youngsters’s Analysis Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

Each human chook flu instances in the US concerned people who had very shut contact with contaminated animals by their jobs, Webby says.

‘Primarily No Threat’ of Fowl Flu Spreading Extensively in People

“Proper now, the overwhelming majority of persons are at basically no danger from this virus in its present kind,” Webby says. “Nonetheless, individuals do have to be conscious that the virus is in wildlife, and be a bit cautious round animals that seem sick.”