After the positive flu result, health care workers started using more personal protective gear around the patient. Separately, as part of routine flu surveillance and not because doctors suspected anything unusual in the patient’s case, the hospital sent the patient’s flu sample to be tested for H5, which is the bird flu virus strain. Officials found that during the patient’s time at the hospital, 112 health care workers had interacted with them. After exposure to the bird flu virus, people typically develop symptoms within 3 to 5 days. All of that additional information on the health workers will be secondary to the blood tests results, Rivers said, and whether they show signs of a previous infection.

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Persons: Demetre Daskalakis, Daskalaskis, wouldn’t, Michael Osterholm, Osterholm, ”, Daskalakis, Caitlin Rivers, ” Rivers, ” Daskalakis, Rivers Organizations: Centers for Disease Control, Prevention, CDC’s National Center, Infectious Disease, University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, CDC Locations: Missouri, Baltimore, United States, California