President-elect Trump encouraged Republicans in Texas to consider a primary challenge to Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Thursday after he blamed the congressman for “getting in the way” of a push to raise the debt ceiling as part of government funding talks. “The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way,…

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced on Friday the first confirmed human case of bird flu in the state. According to HHS, the individual was exposed to poultry with the virus while working with a commercial flock in northwest Iowa.

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday the state’s first human case of the highly pathogenic avian influenza. According to a press release from the department, the individual is a commercial poultry worker who was exposed by a flock in northwest Iowa.

Iowa health officials have reported the first human case of bird flu in the state of Iowa while also saying that risk of infection is very low for the public. The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (Iowa HHS) said in a release that it is the first case of a human getting avian influenza A(H5) in the state.