WHAT SHOULD THE US DO?
Rick Shiny, a former prime US well being official, has been amongst these calling for the division of agriculture to launch extra details about fowl flu infections amongst animals.
“There are nonetheless simply reams of information from this present administration that have not been launched,” he instructed the Washington Publish on Monday.
The US has a stockpile of tens of millions of H5N1 vaccine doses, which Shiny mentioned ought to obtain the correct authorisation and be supplied to at-risk individuals comparable to farm staff.
The Biden authorities has additionally been urged to encourage corporations to develop speedy dwelling assessments, comparable to these extensively used to shortly diagnose COVID-19, in addition to monitor wastewater for fowl flu.
A number of of the specialists known as on Biden to behave shortly, earlier than president-elect Trump replaces him in lower than two weeks.
There are explicit concerns about Trump’s pick for health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy is a sceptic of vaccines, which might be among the many strongest weapons to fend off a possible new pandemic. He’s additionally a identified fan of uncooked milk, which has repeatedly been discovered to be contaminated with fowl flu from contaminated dairy cows.
