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Opinion | If many dairy farm workers contract H5N1, we risk a pandemic

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

Failure to shield these workers could allow the H5N1 virus to become a greater threat.

By Jennifer B. Nuzzo

Lauren Sauer

and

Nahid Bhadelia

May 7, 2024 at 6:45 a.m. EDT

Dairy cows have been contracting the H5N1 virus. (Aaron Josefczyk/Reuters)

Jennifer B. Nuzzo is a professor of epidemiology and the director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. Lauren Sauer is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the director of the Special Pathogen Research Network. Nahid Bhadelia is an infectious diseases physician and associate professor and the founding director of the Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases at Boston University.

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