Suspected bird flu case in Brazil farm worker came back negative, authorities say

Suspected bird flu case in Brazil farm worker came back negative, authorities say

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A suspected case of bird flu in a farm worker in the Brazilian city of Montenegro came back negative, the health ministry of Rio Grande do Sul, the country's southernmost state, said in a statement on…

The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) announced that the result of the avian influenza test performed in a farm official in Montenegro, in Rio Grande do Sul, was negative. This information was confirmed by the state governor Eduardo Leite, during a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro. The State Secretary of Health also confirmed the results of the examination. The test, which used the PCR technique, was performed in a worker …