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Federal health officials are worried that highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, is crossing several animal boundaries, and the third person to contract the disease last week had respiratory symptoms.
Dairy farmers are on guard and the federal government is mobilizing after an outbreak among cattle herds of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
The virus' leap from animals to humans is not yet alarming public health officials or vets, who say the risk to the public remains low.
As the H5N1 avian flu continues to spread among dairy cows in the United States, nearly 5 million doses of flu vaccine are now being prepared for possible use in humans.
Health officials are concerned because the latest person to contract bird flu was the first to show respiratory symptoms.