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A person in Texas has been diagnosed with bird flu, an infection tied to the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows, health officials said Monday. The patient is being treated with an antiviral drug, and their only reported symptom was eye redness, Texas health officials said. The person had been in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and the risk to the public remains low, according to health officials. Last week, dairy cows in Texas and Kansas were reported to be infected with bird flu — and federal agriculture officials later confirmed infections in a Michigan dairy herd that ha…

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