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Nicole Karlis

Why experts are worried about bird flu

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert last week about a confirmed case of H5N1 in a human.

In late March, a worker on a commercial dairy farm in Texas developed a case of pink eye and later tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza Type A H5N1, also known as "bird flu" or avian flu.

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