The CDC warned that if the virus becomes more common among individuals, it will increase the chance of an influenza pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it is preparing for the likelihood that bird flu will pose a bigger threat to human health, increasing the probability of an influenza pandemic.
According to the CDC, while currently circulating bird flu viruses cannot easily move between humans, they “could change in ways that allow them to easily infect people and efficiently spread between people, potentially causing a pandemic.”
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The CDC Is Preparing For The Possibility
According to a new study, the government is monitoring approximately 350 farmworkers who have been exposed to a bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle. On Wednesday, the CDC reported a second human case of bird flu from the continuing outbreak, indicating that further infections in people are possible. It presently rates the avian flu’s health risk to the American public as low.
According to the CDC, bird flu is a form of flu virus that primarily infects wild birds but can also infect other species. It is widely distributed among wild birds in the United States and around the world. It occasionally infects people, but it is “extremely rare for it to be transmitted from one person to another,” the government says.
The CDC advocated for “comprehensive” global surveillance of bird flu, specifically the subtype of concern known as A (H5N1), as well as an inquiry into every case in humans to “prepare for any developments that increase the risk to human health.”
It detailed current attempts to improve monitoring, such as increasing the number of specimens available for examination. It is additionally “encouraging clinicians to consider influenza A (H5N1) when evaluating patients who present with conjunctivitis or respiratory illness following a relevant exposure, such as attending an agricultural fair.”
According to the report, “surveillance has identified no unusual influenza activity trends in the United States.”
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