What Avian Flu Is and How to Limit Its Spread
On Jan. 14, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the Eurasian H5 strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza — commonly called the avian flu — had infected a wild duck in South Carolina. That report marked the first detection of a highly pathogenic, or disease-causing, strain in the United States since 2015. Unfortunately, it would not be the ...