
Dairy cows in California
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The USA has ramped up influenza surveillance amid an ongoing outbreak of the fowl flu virus H5N1 in dairy farm animals. Public well being officers hope extra powerful tracking will assist catch and comprise any possible human outbreaks. However mavens warn that with out extra surveillance, circumstances will slip throughout the cracks – in the event that they haven’t already – which raises the danger of the virus spurring a virulent disease in folks.
Since 2003, kind of 900 folks international are reported to have had H5N1, round part of whom died of the an infection. In 2021, a…