Since California issued numerous recalls of raw milk due to bird flu contamination in recent weeks, the state has received 10 reports of illness in people who consumed it, including a child from Marin County, public health officials said.
Initial testing revealed the child had influenza A -- a category that includes both seasonal flu and H5 bird flu -- and has since recovered. Marin County Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will perform additional testing to confirm or rule out bird flu.
The other individuals also did not test positive for bird flu in initial testing.