He got pink-eye, which may or may not have anything to do with his being around chickens. This is pretty much like previous bird-flu "outbreaks", which resulted in no deaths, no severe illness, not even flu-like illness in humans, and no human-to-human transmission.

For all we've been hearing about bird-flu for decades now, it is a great big nothing-burger. It's just the media running around like Chicken Little screaming that the sky is falling because an acorn fell on somebody's head. Of course, we've seen that they can fabricate a pandemic out of nothing but fake tests and media hype. Don't fall for it again.