Scientists are calling for public health agencies to pay attention to key issues from the COVID-19 pandemic as they mitigate the outbreak of bird flu.
Scientists are taking lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to mitigate the potential threat of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, aresponded to growing scientific concern about the outbreak this week by announcing on Thursday that H5N1 virus particles had beenthat gave this result closely mirrors that used during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when individuals with symptoms were tested...
Although more virulent strains of bird flu have been circulating in the U.S. for several years, the public concern over the virus mounted earlier this month when a dairy worker inbecame the second human case of the disease in the U.S., the first ever contracted from close contact with sick cows. Pekosz voiced similar concerns. Although the USDA released 283 sequences of the virus from their samples, the agency did not release the collection dates, location, or species of genetic data. This means scientists are struggling to draw meaningful connections between the identified mutations.more dangerous to humans and are instead “more like a fingerprint” to note where it has been and how far it’s spreading.
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