Scientists are raising alarm bells once more about bird flu. Tens of millions of birds have been culled and hundreds of thousands have died from the H5N1 strain. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Jonathan Runstadler, a professor of infectious disease at the Cummings School for Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, about the disease and how to keep it from affecting humans.
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