{"id":2317,"date":"2025-01-23T08:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/veterinarylab\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T13:31:57","slug":"h5n1-bird-flu-concerns-grow-covid-mistakes-repeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/veterinarylab\/2025\/01\/23\/h5n1-bird-flu-concerns-grow-covid-mistakes-repeated\/","title":{"rendered":"From Forbes: H5N1 Bird Flu Concerns Grow. Are COVID-19 Mistakes Being Repeated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"fs-headline speakable-headline font-base font-size fs-headline__standard\">H5N1 Bird Flu Concerns Grow. Are COVID-19 Mistakes Being Repeated?<\/h3>\n<p><em>December 3, 2024, by Bruce Y. Lee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Will that be the case with the H5N1 avian influenza virus that\u2019s been spreading among birds for years, jumped to dairy cattle earlier this year and appeared in a pig a month ago? Is hindsight not 2020? Are we seeing the same mistakes made with the H5N1 bird flu that we did during the COVID-19 pandemic? Or is this H5N1 virus situation right now different enough from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic that we don\u2019t have to worry about the \u201cp\u201d word this time?<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucelee\/2024\/12\/02\/h5n1-bird-flu-concerns-grow-are-covid-19-mistakes-being-repeated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more by visiting the Forbes website &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H5N1 Bird Flu Concerns Grow. Are COVID-19 Mistakes Being Repeated? December 3, 2024, by Bruce Y. Lee There\u2019s a saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 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