Former CDC Director Robert Redfield, predicting an inevitable bird flu pandemic, emphasized the potential for a man-made crisis due to published research on making the virus highly infectious in humans.
Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), stated that he believes a bird flu pandemic will occur sometime; the question is when.
Redfield on Friday will talk about the burgeoning bird flu crisis, which has been brought to light by the discovery of the virus in numerous cattle across the nation and the World Health Organization's confirmation of the first human death in Mexico.
"I really do think it's very likely that we will, at some time, it's not a question of if, it's more of a question of when we will have a bird flu pandemic," Redfield stated.
Additionally, he mentioned that compared to COVID-19, bird flu has a "significant mortality" when it infects people. According to Redfield, the fatality rate is "probably so...