The Texas dairy worker who caught Bird Flu from a sick cow in late March had none of the symptoms typically associated with influenza, including fever, coughing or sneezing. The only indication that he had been infected was a striking case of pink eye. Details of the man’s case — the only documented instance of bird flu spreading from a cow to a human — were published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine, from health officials in Texas and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A dairy worker in Texas developed pink eye when he got bird flu. New England Journal of Medicine Bird flu was first detected in several herds of dairy cows in late March. Around that same time, the man’s right eye started to bother him and became red. He ended up with broken blood vessels in both eyes. Doctors said he had conjunctivitis, or pink eye. The man had been in direct contact with both healthy and sick cows. Swabs of the man’s eye and nose revealed he …

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