A Bird-Flu Pandemic in People? Hereβs What It Might Look Like.
There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may not be sufficient.
Workers in Lima, Peru, collected dead pelicans from a beach in 2022. The H5N1 virus has been rapidly gaining new hosts.
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