This year, their work has taken on new urgency as a dangerous flu virus, H5N1, tears through dairy cattle and poultry flocks in the United States.
Dr. Robert Webster, a New Zealand virologist who was the first to understand that flu viruses come from the guts of birds.
Finding a new flu virus here may give the world an early warning to incoming contagion.
Sandpipers on East Point beach in Maurice River Township in New Jersey CNNIt’s not the first time US farmers have had to contend with a highly pathogenic bird flu.
“We did get the same strain that’s causing all the havoc in the people and in the wild birds,” Kercher said.
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