Analysing the 2022 US avian influenza outbreak

From February to June 2022, the US battled a massive outbreak of avian influenza. In total, 186 cases were reported resulting in the loss of 40.1 million birds. Lessons learned during the 2015 outbreak were clearly not remembered during the 7-year hiatus without a major incident. In 2016, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the US Department of Agriculture stated in its final report on the 2015 epidemic that these were the most serious outbreaks ever in the US. A total o