Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Specific location not released by state health officials
Chickens stand at attention during the 2024 O'Brien County Fair poultry show. So far this month bird flu has been detected in Sioux, Palo Alto, Sac, O'Brien, Monona, and Worth counties in Iowa.
The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday the state's first human case of the highly pathogenic avian influenza.
According to a press release from the department, the individual is a commercial poultry worker who was exposed by a flock in northwest Iowa.
Earlier this week, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced the 11th detection of the virus in poultry flocks this year, following a string of detections that began in early December.
The press release did not say from which county the individual worked, but the bird flu has been detected in Sio...
