To kick off a round of questions, and I want to begin with Dr. Morazzo. More than a decade ago, researchers at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, studying avian flu, or H5N1, warned that only a few mutations in the virus would enable it to transmit to mammals. Today, H5N1 has infected 51 dairy cattle herds across nine states. Just yesterday, a second human case of H5N1 infection was detected in Michigan. (00:08–00:27)
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Asserts that University of Wisconsin researchers warned about H5N1 mutations enabling mammal transmission over a decade ago.
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