US's bird flu outbreak '100X worse' than Covid, warn experts
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The recent outbreak of bird flu, specifically Type A H5N1, in the United States has sparked concern among scientists. They warn that the impact of this outbreak could potentially exceed the devastation caused by the Covid pandemic by a hundredfold. The strain was first identified in 1959 and is known to cause severe, sometimes fatal infections in individuals who come into close contact with infected wild birds or poultry.