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Most distressing aspects related to bird flu news were very often reported this month. Six workers on a chicken farm in Colorado have tested positive for H5N1 virus; it is indeed the largest human outbreak in America. Since 2022, the total number of cases amounts to 11 but would be less than what actually is because there are no routine tests.
The current strain of Bird Flu, known as “H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza,” Richard Webby, an influenza expert at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis said that it spread among animals like something else—a “super virus.” The wild birds and all poultry farms have been so torn apart by this virus that more than a hundred million birds have been infected in about forty-eight states.
Although H5N1 virus has been in existence for more than twenty-five years, it has only recently sometimes shifted to mammals, including cats picolas bears and sea lions. It first appeared on American livestock last March and has spread already to 163 herds across thirteen states.
Such would already be cause enough for concern even without reports of people falling ill too. All those who have tested positive in the United States had worked closely with farm animals in every instance, but every new case only serves to make another human pandemic seem more probable. “That’s definitely the worst-case scenario you would want to happen,” Webby said.