I recently convened a roundtable with federal and state agency leaders and dairy stakeholders in Wisconsin on the current state of the disease and strategies for mitigating its impact on human and animal health. Scientists still don't know how the virus is spreading or how long cows remain infectious, and our roughly 100,000 farm workers are at the highest risk of infection. So, Dr. Morazzo, please tell me about NIAID's tracking of the spread of H5N1 or mutations in the virus and the work that you're doing to develop a vaccine against it. (01:06–01:21)
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Asserts that scientists do not know how H5N1 is spreading or how long cows remain infectious, and that 100,000 farm workers are at high risk.
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