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Scientists think the US may be missing human cases of bird flu

H5N1, the deadly bird flu virus, is in a better position than ever to move between species and “spill over aggressively” to humans, an expert said. “We know when it hits the poultry farms because the birds die, but pigs may or may not manifest severe illness,” he added. ” The virus can just churn, make many copies of itself,” he further said.

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The CDC is protecting against bird flu

A bird flu expert said there’s no indication that the virus has adapted itself to spread efficiently between humans and to ” routinely cause severe disease”. “If you develop respiratory infections with bird flu, you can get very…sick with severe pneumonia because the receptors are deep in the lungs,” she added. There have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the US.

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