Infectious disease experts break it all down.

https://www.self.com/story/what-is-bird-flu

ByKorin Miller

May 4, 2022

Bird flu has been making headlines for months. Since February, it has killed 36.6 million birds in the U.S., some of whom were put to death to keep the infection from spreading, according to theUSDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The good news is that bird flu rarely infects humans, and so far, only two human cases have been reported.

The first human infection occurred in late 2021 in the United Kingdom, and it did not spread to anyone else. The most recent case popped up at the end of April in Colorado, and it also seems to be an isolated infection. Both people who contracted this strain of bird flu were working closely with birds, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).

The CDC stresses that health risk…