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170 No one wants to think about pandemics. But bird flu doesn’t care.

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Kelsey Piper @ Vox 3 place · 05/03/2024 08:00 EDT

No one wants to think about pandemics. But bird flu doesn’t care.

Rescued chickens gather in an aviary at Farm Sanctuary’s Southern California Sanctuary on October 5, 2022, in Acton, California. | Mario Tama/Getty Images


A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough. The so-called “bird flu” H5N1 virus only rarely infects humans. Over the course of several decades during which it has circulated and resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of birds, about 880 cases in humans have been reported, generally in humans who work very closel

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