MedPage Today April 25, 2024
— Experts question whether U.S. has a handle on the scope of the outbreak in dairy cattle
With H5N1 avian influenza causing unprecedented outbreaks in mammals around the world — including U.S. dairy cattle — infectious disease experts are raising concerns that the U.S. isn’t doing enough to get ahead of any potential problems.
“We really need to be moving quickly to get our heads around what’s happening in the animal population and also what’s happening in the human population,” James Lawler, MD, MPH, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Global Center for Health Security, told MedPage Today. “I don’t think we’ve been testing adequately to be able to get a real picture of that.”
Lawler said we should...
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