Health experts warn US isnt reacting fast enough to bird flu [Video]

The U.S. hasn’t learned lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird flu that keep showing signs of their own pandemic potential, health experts told CNN Friday.Related video above: First severe bird flu case in the US reported“We kind of have our head in the sand about how widespread this is from the zoonotic standpoint, from the animal-to-human standpoint,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator under President Donald Trump, said on “CNN Newsroom” with Pamela Brown.Birx called for much wider-spread testing of farm workers who make up the majority of identified cases in the U.S., noting the country is heading into an even higher-risk period as seasonal flu begins to circulate. That raises the possibility a person could get infected with both seasonal flu and H5N1, and the viruses could swap gene segments, Birx said, giving the …