One person in Colorado tested positive in April, though public health officials thought that person might have just carried the virus in his nose without a true infection.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza can infect both wild birds and domesticated poultry. Since it kills about 90% of infected birds, the U.S. Department of Agriculture sends teams into affected facilities to destroy all the poultry there, so any birds that might have survived can’t carry the virus with them and decimate other flocks., though public health officials thought that person might have just carried the virus in his nose without a true infection.
Gov. Jared Polis had previously declared the situation a disaster in April, after the virus hit a Montrose County facility with 58,000 birds and a Weld County operation with 1.4 million birds and 7 million eggs. At the time, the state set aside $1 million for the response. The declaration expired in late July, following a lull in new cases.
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