The CDC finds itself not only trying to blunt the spread of the H5N1 virus, but also playing catch-up with testing methods that have been largely resisted among America’s farmers. Can new interventions can ward off mass human-to-human transmission of this strain? Via Fortune: “We will have a bird flu pandemic,” Robert Redfield, former director of the CDC, bluntly predicted in a television interview in June.

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