Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.
Runny noses and queasy guts aren’t the only concerns this cold and flu season; public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe cases of bird flu in two North American patients.
The ominous news of severe avian influenza, or H5N1, in a Louisiana patient and a Canadian teenager was enough for Dr. Jeremy Faust, a public health researcher and emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, to raise his threat assessment.
For the uninitiated, DEFCON 1 is considered the highest threat level — Faust offered New York City in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic as a comparison. DEFCON 3, per Military.com, is “generally seen as a standby level of alert.”…