The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said “it’s not a question of if, it’s more of a question of when” a bird flu pandemic will occur with “significant mortality” in humans.
Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist who was appointed to lead the CDC in 2018 by former President Donald Trump, appeared on News Nation on Friday to discuss the growing concern he and other experts have about bird flu.
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The highly contagious virus, also known as the avian flu, has “probably somewhere between 25 and 50 percent mortality” in humans, Redfield said.
“Unfortunately, bird flu when it does enter humans, has a significant mortality. Probably somewhere between 25-50 percent mortality so it’s going to get quite complicated,” he explained.
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