Recent reports of the first documented case of the H5N1 virus passing from birds to cows — and then from a cow to a person — have generated a lot of press in an age of worry about diseases “spilling over” from wildlife to agricultural animals and humans.
How does bird flu infect species?
James Lowe, a professor of veterinary clinical medicine at the University of Illinois, describes the factors that influence infection with the H5N1 virus in a variety of animals.
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