12 months and 70 cases since the first human bird flu infection [View all]

ByYouri Benadjaoud and Tommy Brooksbank
March 31, 2025, 11:22 PM

One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker, just weeks after the virus had been found in cattle for the first time ever ...

In the 12 months since the first human case, at least 70 people have been infected. There was one death linked to a human infected with bird flu in Louisiana.

ABC News' medical correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton was granted rare access inside the race to stop bird flu at Michigan State University's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. He aimed to better understand how researchers are trying to curb the spread in animals -- and why that may help protect us from an outbreak among humans.

"We're a network of more than 60 academic, state and federal laboratories that are the first line of defense in the case of a high consequence animal disease outbreak," Dr. Kimberly Dodd, dean of the college of veterinary medicine at Michigan State University, told Sutton ...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-months-70-cases-human-bird-flu-infection/story?id=120355303