Forbes April 27, 2024
Avian influenza has been spreading for at least four years, causing widespread outbreaks and killing millions of birds. Then, it was found in clusters of sea lions, farmed mink, cats, and other mammals.
This past month, the threat of human spread grew higher as the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A H5N1 was found to have spread from dairy to dairy and from dairies to poultry farms. It likely began earlier than that and was not detected because we don’t do thorough surveillance.
In the U.S., only two human cases have been reported so far. The first, in 2022, was in a poultry worker in Colorado.
Since 1997, 909 cases of HPAI A(H5N1) have been reported from 23 countries, mainly after...
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