Top virologists urge world leaders to act now on rising threat of H5N1 pandemic.

So far, just in the US, >995 dairy herds, 168 million birds, and at least 70 human infections, plus 1 human death. Sporadic outbreaks in wild birds, backyard flocks, wild mammals, domestic cats, all amplifying risk to humans. And, particularly alarming, several human infections with no known contact with infected animals.

Current sequence data shows ongoing mutations and genetic reassortment.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X25001103

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