H5N1 Bird Flu is Causing Alarm. Here’s Why We Must Act. - Zeynep Tufekci
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html
Bird flu — known more formally as avian influenza — has long hovered on the horizons of scientists’ fears. (...) things are changing. The virus, which has long caused outbreaks among poultry, is infecting more and more migratory birds, allowing it to spread more widely, even to various mammals, raising the risk that a new variant could spread to and among people.
