"We're flying blind," said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. With so few tests run, she said, it's impossible to know how many farmworkers have been infected, or how serious the disease is.
"We'd like to be doing more testing. There's no doubt about that," said Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the CDC. The CDC's bird flu test is the only one authorized by the FDA, with roughly 1 million available tests and more expected soon.
Researchers are concerned that clinical labs lack authorization for bird flu testing, hindering the ability to detect the virus's spread effectively as the outbreak grows across multiple states.
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