Dairy cows in California
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The US has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ongoing outbreak of the fowl flu virus H5N1 in dairy cattle. Public well being officers hope extra strong monitoring will assist catch and comprise any potential human outbreaks. However specialists warn that with out extra surveillance, circumstances will slip by means of the cracks – in the event that they haven’t already – which raises the danger of the virus spurring a pandemic in folks.
Since 2003, roughly 900 folks worldwide are reported to have had H5N1, round half of whom died of the an infection. In 2021, a…
