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Forgotten epidemic: with over 280 million birds dead how is the avian flu outbreak evolving?
With at least 280 million birds dead since October 2021, the highly infectious H5N1 strain of avian flu has devastated poultry and caused the biggest sudden drop of the world’s wild bird population in decades. The millions of wild birds killed includes …