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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic

KFF Health News

billion into tamping down the bird flu on poultry farms since 2022, which includes reimbursing farmers who’ve had to cull their flocks, and more than $430 million into combating the bird flu on dairy farms. Far more bird flu damage is inevitable, but the extent of it will be left to the Trump administration and Mother Nature.

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How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

HEALTHBEAT

billion into tamping down the bird flu on poultry farms since 2022, which includes reimbursing farmers whove had to cull their flocks, and more than $430 million into combating the bird flu on dairy farms. Sam Scarpino, a disease surveillance specialist in the Boston area, wondered how many other mysterious infections had gone undetected.