Melody Schreiber
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What we know about the U.S. bird flu outbreak and its chronic disease risk
When H5N1 first landed in North America, borne on the wings of migratory birds blown off course from Europe in late 2021, Seema Lakdawala followed the developments closely, but she wasn’t overly worried about it leading to a pandemic in humans yet. There were still a few steps the highly pathogenic avian influenza needed to…
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Bird flu is spreading through U.S. farms. What are the risks to people?
For the first time, H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, was identified in cows, less than a week after the first case of bird flu was discovered in livestock among baby goats at a Minnesota farm. The news made infectious disease doctors and researchers take notice, since one warning sign that bird flu could be…
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