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Bbird flu: How to prevent an outbreak from becoming a pandemic
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Wed, 2023-03-01 17:20 — mike kraft
How to stop the bird flu outbreak becoming a pandemic Nature - From tracking the disease’s spread in wild birds to updating human vaccines, there are measures that could help keep avian influenza in check. nature
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Fears are rising about bird flu’s potential to spark a human pandemic, as well as its destruction of wildlife and farmed birds. An 11-year-old girl tragically died in Cambodia last week after catching avian influenza. That followed reports earlier this year of the virus spreading from mammal to mammal through a mink farm, and causing mass mortality in Peruvian birds and sea lions. Since the beginning of 2022, more than 50 million poultry birds in the United States, and a similar number in Europe, have either died of the disease or been killed in efforts to stem its spread. Can bird flu be stopped, and if yes, how?
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