内容摘要：Members of a team try to line up a pair of bull as a jockey, left bottom, prepares himself for start during a traditional bull race competition, in Malal, a village of Attock district, in Pakistan, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Members of a team try to line up a pair of bull as a jockey, left bottom, prepares himself for start during a traditional bull race competition, in Malal, a village of Attock district, in Pakistan, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

, but not as frequently as several months ago.“Given the fact that the number of animal detections has fallen according to USDA data, it’s not surprising that human cases have declined as well,” the CDC said in a statement.

Dr. Gregory Gray said he wasn’t concerned about the CDC not identifying new cases in months.“I don’t think that anybody’s hiding anything,” said Gray, an infectious disease speicialist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.But Osterholm and some other experts think it’s likely that at least some milder infections are going undetected. And they worry that the effort to find them has been eroding.

Resignations at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine could slow the government’s bird flu monitoring, said Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.Three of 14 experts accepted deferred resignation offers at the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, which responds to disease outbreaks with crucial diagnostic information, he said. They are among more than 15,000 USDA staff to accept the offers, an agency spokesperson said.

And dozens of staff were fired at the FDA’s Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network, which investigates animal diseases caused by problems including contaminated pet food. Cats in several states have been sickened and died after eating raw pet food found to contain poultry infected with H5N1.

Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, said “targeted surveillance has really dropped off precipitously since Trump took office.”Frank Taylor guides mares away from an open gate on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Nicholasville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Jonathan Tincher holds back the tail of a mare while she undergoes an ultrasound on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Nicholasville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)Jonathan Tincher holds back the tail of a mare while she undergoes an ultrasound on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Nicholasville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Jonathan Tincher feeds mares in a field on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Nicholasville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)Jonathan Tincher feeds mares in a field on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Nicholasville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)