Massachusetts bird flu: Health experts worry it could become another pandemic

Massachusetts bird flu: Health experts worry it could become another pandemic

Massachusetts infectious disease specialists say that not enough is being done to combat the bird flu and worry it could become a human pandemic, the Boston Globe reports. Several of the state’s leading experts made the comments at a public forum Wednesday, saying gaps in surveillance of H5N1 – known as avian flu – and funding cuts by the Trump administration are hurting efforts to contain the disease, which is highly contagious in birds and has…

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