Analysis: Why Bird flu is not a threat to most humans--yet. Q&A

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Bird flu is bad for poultry and cattle. Why it's not a dire threat for most of us — yet The H5N1 virus isn’t spreading among people, but scientists are on guard about the outbreak that's infecting dairy cows across the U.S. NBC News
Bird flu likely circulated in US cows for four months before diagnosis -paper Bird flu likely circulated in U.S. dairy cows on a limited basis for about four months before federal officials confirmed the disease that has now spread to nine states, according to a new federally funded research paper. Tom Polansek,Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

 

 

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