H5N1 Bird Flu on Utah Mink Farm: Unmonitored, Unculled
H5N1 has been spreading uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months with no culling and no worker monitoring, raising biosecurity alarm given minks' human-like respiratory tracts.
What we know
An account on X flagged that the USDA doesn't regulate mink, creating a regulatory gap that leaves thousands of infected animals and at-risk workers unmonitored for two months. She calls it 'a ticking time bomb' because minks' respiratory tracts are remarkably similar to humans, making farms ideal petri dishes for mutations that could make H5N1 more transmissible in people.
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