The CDC is deploying a team to Washington state to assess the health of farm workers who culled poultry suffering from bird flu after four workers are presumed to have been infected by the virus, U.S.

Health officials are investigating the first presumed human cases of bird flu in Washington state after four agricultural workers tested positive for H5N1 last week. Why it matters: These are Washington's first presumed human cases of avian flu,

The Washington State Department of Health is investigating after four agricultural workers tested presumptively positive for the first human infections of bird flu.

Four agricultural workers in southeast Washington have preliminarily tested positive for bird flu after working around an infected poultry flock at a commercial egg farm. The cases, if confirmed, woul

Four people have reportedly developed symptoms of avian influenza after working with infected poultry in Franklin County.