"The outbreak that began in 2024 is certainly the largest documented one. But that alone isn't enough to warrant panic. An emerging potential epidemic demands our attention when two features start changing for the worse: severity and transmissibility."
"On December 18th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first severe case of H5N1 in the United States, in an older man in Louisiana. This case marks an escalation and brings us meaningfully closer to a potential pandemic."
"The previous 65 reported cases of H5N1 in the United States were all mild. But they weren't the only people who have had bird flu. Antibody studies suggest that perhaps 7 percent of farmworkers in Michigan and Colorado working in high-risk settings acquired H5N1 between April and August."
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