Serologic Investigation of Poultry Farm Workers Associated with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Outbreaks in the Republic of Korea during the 2024–2025 season
Bo min An, Jeong-hyun Nam, Yong jun Choi, Eun-Jin Kim, 보민 안, 정현 남, 용준 최, 은진 김 · 2026
Read Serologic Investigation of Poultry Farm Workers Associated with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Outbreaks in the Republic of Korea during the 2024–2025 season by Bo min An, Jeong-hyun Nam, Yong jun Choi, Eun-Jin Kim, 보민 안, 정현 남, 용준 최, 은진 김 (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13327822.txt.
Description
Bo min An and team tested poultry farm staff for signs of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) infection in Korea. Their 2026 blood test study took early and late blood samples through public health centers from 41 workers tied by contact to outbreaks in the 2024-2025 season, testing antibodies by microneutralization. Farm staff with direct contact with sick birds face higher risk, and scattered human cases have cropped up worldwide since the first case in Hong Kong in 1997.
A rule change in October 2024 widened testing from people with signs and contact to anyone tied by contact and judged to need testing for public health ends, signs or not. People tested thus rose from one in 2023-2024 to 41 in 2024-2025. No blood change was found, but wider testing let doctors size up silent or mild infection. The team argues that steady watch based on contact risk is needed in high-risk job groups.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bo min An, Jeong-hyun Nam, Yong jun Choi, Eun-Jin Kim, 보민 안, 정현 남, 용준 최, 은진 김 |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |