Overview
- The patient is a Grays Harbor County resident, an older adult with underlying conditions who was hospitalized in early November after high fever, confusion, and respiratory distress.
- Treatment is ongoing in King County following prior care in Thurston and Grays Harbor counties, and no additional patient details have been released.
- Washington State Public Health Laboratories are conducting confirmatory testing, and local and state teams are monitoring and testing close contacts.
- Health authorities report no identified risk to the general public, and the CDC continues to assess overall public risk as low with no documented human-to-human transmission in the U.S.
- Recent surveillance found nearly 70 infected U.S. poultry flocks affecting more than 1.7 million birds, and the last confirmed livestock detection was about a month ago in Idaho, according to USDA.