Commonground
Senior Moderator
July 7, 2025
By Jessica Nix
July 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM EDT
Updated on July 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM EDT
Takeaways:
By Jessica Nix
July 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM EDT
Updated on July 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM EDT
Takeaways:
- The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has ended its emergency response for bird flu as the outbreak has abated.
- The CDC will no longer post infection rates found among animals on its website and will instead merge its bird flu updates with those for seasonal influenza, posting the number of people monitored and tested for the virus on a monthly basis.
- Doctors and researchers warn that ending the emergency response will make it harder to detect potentially dangerous changes in the virus, which could mutate and become more easily transmissible between people if it continues to jump between species or the human case count grows.