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Scientists urge Trump administration to fight threat of bird flu pandemic

Virologists from 40 countries say year-long US outbreak raises risk virus will spread between humans

The US should step up efforts to combat its year-long bird H5N1 flu outbreak and control the pandemic risk to people, an international group of virologists has warned.

The high historical human mortality rate from H5N1 suggests “the terrible consequences of underreacting to current threats”, say human and animal virologists from the Global Virus Network spanning more than 40 countries.

Their intervention on Tuesday highlights alarm at the proliferation of the H5N1 avian pathogen now detected in poultry in all 50 US states, infecting scores of people and causing at least one confirmed death.

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