How does bird flu infect so many species?

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Source: Photo by Fred Zwicky

Reports of the first documented case of the H5N1 virus passing from birds to cows — and then from a cow to a person - have generated a lot of concern over diseases ‘spilling over’ from wildlife to livestock and humans. 

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