An individual in Washington has tested positive for bird flu in the first human case of the virus to be detected in the US this year.
The patient, from Yakima County, about 140 miles southeast of Seattle, was diagnosed with the H5N1 strain of bird flu after being exposed to two dairy cattle herds also infected with the virus.
No details of their symptoms have been released, but health officials said they were ‘not experiencing severe illness’ and had not been hospitalized…