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 Tuesday.

The worker worked at the poultry grange where authorities last week identified Brazil’s first bird flu case in a commercial farm, according to the statement. There have been no reports of human infections in Brazil since that outbreak.

(Reporting by Debora Ely in Porto Alegre and Andre Romani in Sao Paulo; Editing by Sarah Morland)