Helen Branswell polls scientists on the open questions regarding H5N1: "It’s not lost on many scientists, here and abroad, that the paucity of data coming out of the U.S. is not dissimilar to the limited information flow out of China in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic — a situation the U.S and other governments complained about loudly at the time."

These are the bird flu questions that influenza and animal scientists desperately want answered
STAT asked scientists who have long worked on influenza or in veterinary medicine what they viewed as the most pressing questions about the H5N1 bird flu outbreak.
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