How a turkey farmer dealt with an avian flu outbreak on Thanksgiving
The bird flu virus continues to spread around the world, including in mammals like cows. Scientists are worried it could become a human virus.
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FILE - A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm in Idaho on March 11, 2009. As of April 11, 2024, a strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, that has killed millions of wild birds in recent years has been found in at least 24 dairy cow herds in eight U.S. states: Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Idaho, Michigan and North Carolina and South Dakota. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)
Bird flu has spread to wild and farm birds, foxes, sea lions, and now dairy cows in the United States, something that has never happened before. A farmworker has also been infected but his illness was relatively mild. All this is raising concerns among researchers as they watch the H5N1 influenza virus evolve. Is human-to-human transmission possible? Are we at risk for another pandemic? We turn to two researchers for some answers. Troy Sutton is an assistant professor in veterinary and biomedical sciences at Penn State and Angela Rasmussen is a virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.
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