Dairy workers in Texas show signs of prior, uncounted bird flu infections in a new study. Without labor protection and better health care, cases are bound to quietly rise as the outbreak among livestock blazes in the United States.
Because it literally is an avian influenza virus that just doesn’t spread between mammals too well yet but they can still get it from birds, and “bird flu” is going to be a bit pithier and more memorable than “influenza A virus subtype H5N1”. What does it being dangerous have to do with any of this?
Because it literally is an avian influenza virus that just doesn’t spread between mammals too well yet but they can still get it from birds, and “bird flu” is going to be a bit pithier and more memorable than “influenza A virus subtype H5N1”. What does it being dangerous have to do with any of this?