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Now they have to strengthen measures to control the outburst of bird flu in the country and suppress the growing risk that the virus will develop to spread more easily between people, international health experts warned.
Scientists have called for increased vaccination of agricultural workers and more effort to stop spreading among domestic animals as a pathogen of H5N1 continues to infect Cattle and chickens across the country.
An epidemic is an early test for President Donald Trump’s administration, which is already Scaling of obligations to global efforts on the control and prevention of the disease.
“It is probably rudely irresponsible for US authorities to allow such a permanent high level of virus transmission in the milk cattle, as this represents such a great threat to the global health health,” said Professor James Wood, an infectious illness expert at the British University of Cambridge.
He added that the curbs like a stricter movement of cattle “would strongly reduce people exposure and that it would be expected in every other country.”
Experts watched with a growing alarm circling the H5N1 in the United States for more than nine months. The outbreak resulted 67 confirmed human casesMostly in people who work with livestock and chickens, according to American centers for the control and prevention of illness.
AND First mortality It was recorded this month, although the cases of man’s transmission to man has not yet been documented.
Virologists are afraid of the re -resorts of genetic material from the Pathogen H5N1 with another animal or human flu, creating a new virus that is more likely to be transmitted between humans. The possibility of this scenario is increasing as the H5N1 circulates in the US during the winter flu season.
Was estimated 12 mn-22mn human flu Between October 1 and January 11, according to CDC. 16. January called hospitals to analyze within 24 hours Flu’s pants actually infected the bird’s fluEspecially if patients were in intensive care. CDC said in November that he provided human flu vaccines agricultural workers in 12 countries.
He felt that the risk of H5n1 was low for the public, but added that “he carefully monitored this dynamic situation.”
The World Animal Health Organization, the UN food organization for food and agriculture and the World Health Organization said that governments should enhance several measures to combat bird flu. They include strengthening the testing of viruses, sequencing and division of data, improvement of the biological security of agricultural holdings and the protection of people exposed to infected animals, said Maria Van Kerkhova, an official of top -notch Who.
“More can and should be done to reduce the spread of bird flu in animals, between different animal species and humans,” said Van Kerkhova, who is the acting director of Pandemic Revidents.
WHO has also encouraged pharmaceutical companies to develop multiple animal vaccines that can be widely used to reduce the spread of bird flu, Van Kerkhov added.
Three leading manufacturers bird flu vaccine For people – CSL seqirus, Sanofi and GSK – they are well placed to respond if the outbreaks become pandemic. In October, the trio signed an agreement of $ 72 million with the US Government, which included obligations to prepare for rapid doses and maintenance of supply levels.
On January 17, the US Government gave $ 590 million to a modern, which develops a flu vaccine using a similar technology based on RNA messenger as well as her Coid Jab.
Seqirus JAB has been ordered by many European governments, but Finland is the only one who has confirmed that he uses vaccines for inoculation of agricultural workers. The vaccine manufacturer said Nordic country also implements its own independent study on JAB safety and efficiency.
The American response to the bird flu is further complicated by a “short break” placed on “mass communication and public phenomena that are not directly related to emergencies or critical of health preservation” by the Health and Human Services Department and other bodies.
Trump’s administration has launched a break to “set a procedure for review and priority,” said the Ministry of Health.
Trump and his allies are critical of the fundamental aspects of international disease control, while Robert F Kennedy Jr, his candidate for health care secretary and human services, is a longtime skeptic skeptic.
One of Trump’s first procedures after his inauguration was to initiate a perennial process to get out of WHO. He did the same action in 2020 during his previous term, but President Joe Biden canceled his decision to take office in January 2021.
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