Scientists warn of urgent need for H5N1 bird flu pandemic preparations

Leading scientists are warning that H5N1 bird flu’s spread through dairy cattle and recent human infections demands urgent pandemic preparations.

The virus has already achieved something alarming – successfully jumping between mammalian species and adapting to spread among dairy cattle, while causing sporadic human illnesses, according to a new warning letter in Science magazine from seven prominent public health experts. — Read the rest

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