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On January 6, the Louisiana Department of Health reported the first human death from H5N1 in the United States.

While the CDC says that the general risk to human health is still considered low,

bird flu now looms large in headlines that identify it as a potential

future pandemic. Here to tell us more about where we stand and what we can do to prevent the

worst case scenario is Amy Maxman, a public health reporter at KFF Health News. Amy, thanks so much

for coming on to talk with us today. Thanks. It's my pleasure. So let's start

with a quick overview of the current bird flu outbreak. When and how did it start? So around

February of last year, farmers in the Texas panhandle started to notice that their cows were

acting abnormally like they weren't producing as much milk.

They had runny noses, things like that. And in about a couple of months, researchers realized

that the bird flu had actually spilled over into cattle for the first time ever and was

actually spreading between cattle. That's completely unprecedented. So that's how it began. And since then, it's now in,

you know, nearly a thousand herds in 16 states. And it's infected around 66 people.

Yeah. And how are things looking currently? Currently it's not good. I mean, in terms of

this outbreak, just sort of being

across the U.S. And a bit of disconcerting news is we had the first person die of the bird flu on

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