American dairy cows have been contracting avian flu, and inactive traces of the virus have been present in milk provides throughout the nation. The unfold to people has been very restricted, however the Times Opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci argues that hoping for good luck shouldn’t be a method for responding to potential pandemics and that authorities companies have to do a greater job of coordinating, testing and reporting their findings rapidly.
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