Experts say bird flu is more widespread than we think: ‘We are in a soup of virus’
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Experts say bird flu is more widespread than we think: ‘We are in a soup of virus’

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists are warning about the continued transmission of dangerous H5N1 bird flu, saying that the virus is more widespread than believed. I mean, there’s virus everywhere around us at this point,” Dr. Marcela Uhart, a wildlife veterinarian with the University of Cal-Davis’ One Health Institute, told a symposium earlier this month. open image in gallery The continued transmission of “bird flu” has scientists sounding the alarm and saying it is more widespread than believed The risk to the American public, the CDC says, remains low. open image in gallery As birds have been killed due to the spread of H5N1, egg prices have increased ) Dr. David Kessler, the Biden administration’s chief science officer during the height of the Covid pandemic, stressed in an op-ed published Tuesday in The New York Times that the Trump administration must be prepared for the possibility that bird flu might mutate to enable human-to-human transmission.

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