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Scientists Warn of Potential avian Flu Pandemic
Global health experts are raising concerns about the potential for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu strain to become the next pandemic, citing it’s widespread prevalence and the risk of human transmission.
Researchers are notably worried that the United States may have already reached a critical point where avian flu could evolve into a human pandemic due to insufficient monitoring and control measures.
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The H5N1 strain has now spread to every continent except Australasia and has even been detected in Antarctica and in camels in the Middle East.
The disease has been found in wild birds and mammals across all fifty American states and has spread to poultry farms,infecting over 1,000 dairy cow herds,according to the USDA. There have been at least 70 human infections and one death.
epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, suggests that previous administrations missed key opportunities to contain the virus, pointing to inconsistent regulations regarding interstate livestock transport.
“The main priority is now detection. Finding cases in humans and observing your evolution is the main threat.”
The Looming Threat of a New Pandemic
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