US Response To Bird Flu Requires Global Collaboration – But CDC Updates Remain On Hold

Bird flu in USA. Outbreaks in Ohio and NY
Bird flu is circulating across the US, affecting over 25 million poultry. Complicating outbreak efforts is the hampered health communication from the federal government, and the efforts to reduce the federal workforce by 10%.

The US Centers for Disease Control has not updated most of its bi-weekly bird flu (H5N1) situation summary since 17 January – even if it finally published a limited edition of its Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report (MMWR) on Thursday, 6 February  after several weeks of hiatus. In the wake of the shutdown of CDC information flow and the announced US withdrawal from WHO, Dr Lynn Goldman, Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health, spoke with Health Policy Watch about how critical public health communications and global health collaboration remains to combatting the bird flu…

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