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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Gauging the Risk of Another Pandemic

Will bird flu be the next pandemic?
While attention was focused on Covid, a new variant of avian influenza emerged: one that can infect many different species and could be highly pathogenic in humans.
 
Bird flu in cows — and now in milk. How worried should we be?
The detection of bird flu in cows and the commercial milk supply raises new concerns about the risks to public health.
 
This May Be Our Last Chance to Halt Bird Flu in Humans and We Are Blowing It
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bird-flu-cow-outbreak.html 
 
As bird flu spreads in cows, fractured U.S. response has echoes of early covid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04/25/bird-flu-cows-government-response/