According to reports, the patient was over 65, had preexisting health issues, and had come into touch with dead and ill birds from a backyard flock.
According to a genetic examination of the patient’s infection, the bird flu virus may have changed within the patient’s body, perhaps leading to a more serious sickness.
It happened one month after California, in reaction to the epidemic among the state’s dairy cattle, declared a state of emergency due to avian flu.
Since its first discovery in late August, the state’s agricultural department has found H5N1 in 645 dairy cows.
The fact that over half of the cases were documented in less than 30 days shows how quickly the virus spread.
California was not one of the first jurisdictions to identify H5N1 in dairy cattle, but since then, the epidemic has expanded dramatically.
