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Experts sound the alarm as Ohio farm worker’s bird flu sparks fear it’s the next pandemic

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An Ohio farm worker has contracted bird flu in a dozen states.

68 people in 11 states had been infected with an H5 strain of avian influenza.

Most human infections in the U.S. , 36 , have been people in California exposed to dairy cattle herds.

No person-to-person spread has been detected to date.

This vaccine won’t protect you from bird flu, but the more people who are vaccinated, the lower the odds that a mutated bird flu virus capable of person-to-person spread will form. For more on bird flu: This story was originally featured on Fortune.com .

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