Bird Flu Isn’t a Danger to Humans...Yet

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Bird flu appears to be on the move. A particularly nasty strain of the H5N1 virus is currently causing the worst outbreak of the disease among birds since it was first identified in China in 1996. Europe is deep into its second commercial season of widespread contagion, and the U.S. is seeing its deadliest 12-month period for poultry in recorded history, with 58 million animals affected so far. Records are also being broken in Japan, where a plan to cull 10 million poultry was announced in mid-January amid the appearance of a different but similar subtype H5N2.

https://time.com/6254312/avian-flu-pandemic-mutations/

Period7 Feb 2023

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  • TitleBird Flu Isn’t a Danger to Humans...Yet
    Media name/outletTime
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date7/02/23
    DescriptionBird flu appears to be on the move. A particularly nasty strain of the H5N1 virus is currently causing the worst outbreak of the disease among birds since it was first identified in China in 1996. Europe is deep into its second commercial season of widespread contagion, and the U.S. is seeing its deadliest 12-month period for poultry in recorded history, with 58 million animals affected so far. Records are also being broken in Japan, where a plan to cull 10 million poultry was announced in mid-January amid the appearance of a different but similar subtype, H5N2.
    PersonsPaul Digard
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