MedPage Today February 9, 2025
Daniel Teres, MD, Paul C. Sorum, MD, PhD, and Martin A. Strosberg, PhD

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Avian Flu on a Cruise Ship: Can We Do Better on the Mainland?

While on a cruise to the French Riviera in fall 2023, a middle-age woman and her husband took a bike excursion along with 20 other passengers. She felt something land on her right shoulder. She wiped it off with her left hand. It was bird poop. Everyone had finished their supply of drinking water, and no one had hand sanitizer in their backpack.

Two days later she had a cough, high fever, chills, and muscle aches. She checked into the ship’s infirmary. The physician asked: did anything unusual happen in the past few days? Her husband...

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