TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 (HealthDayNews) -- Four farm workers who helped cull poultry on an commercial egg farm in Washington are presumed to have been infected with bird flu, making that state the sixth in the country to report human H5N1 infections this year.

The CDC is deploying a team to Washington state to assess the health of farm workers who culled poultry suffering from bird flu after four workers are presumed to have been infected by the virus, U.S.

Washington state health officials said four agricultural workers tested presumptively positive for avian influenza, marking the first presumed human cases in the state.

The U.S. Navy said Sunday that two pilots who went missing after a fighter jet crash near Mount Rainier in Washington state last week have died.

On Monday, two Navy aviators who died after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier were identified by the Navy.

The Navy has identified the two crew members killed when their jet fighter crashed near Mount Rainier last week as two 31-year-old female aviators from California