McKnight’s Senior Living April 22, 2024
(HealthDay News) — The H5N1 avian flu virus that’s infecting US cattle is increasingly showing up in mammals — a dangerous sign that it could someday easily infect people.
That’s the warning issued late last week by World Health Organization chief scientist Dr. Jeremy Farrar, CNN reported.
“We have to watch, more than watch, we have to make sure that if H5N1 did come across to humans with human-to-human transmission that we were in a position to immediately respond with access equitably to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics,” he said at a news conference held on WHO’s new definition for airborne pathogens.
In rare instances, H5N1 can infect a human who’s been in regular close contact with infected animals, as happened...
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