When we're considering the toll on nonhuman animals, this is the largest, most deadly H5N1 outbreak that has been recorded in North America. It has been unfolding slowly for about two and a half years now, but it's become a gargantuan wave at this point.
I am worried because so many species have been getting sick. A huge number of wild birds have been infected, including species that haven't been affected in the past. And we've seen these massive outbreaks in domesticated chickens, which are packed together in farms.
Avian flu is known to be a bird problem. Beyond that, we've been seeing these outbreaks in mammals for a couple of years now, which is more concerning because, of course, we are also mammals.
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