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CDC Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu


FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists are calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to disclose data about the risks of

FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists are calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to disclose data about the risks of bird flu to people and pets that was posted briefly online Wednesday and quickly deleted. "If there is new evidence about H5N1 that is been [sic] held up for political purposes, that is just completely at odds with what the government's responsibility is, which is to protect the American people," Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University, told The Times. "Given the number of cats in the U.S. and the close contact with people, there is definitely a need to understand the potential risk," Dr. Diego Diel, a veterinarian and virologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., told The Times.

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