内容摘要：Amanda Beltramini Healan stands among the plants in her backyard in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, May 19, 2025, where she participates in No Mow Months to improve water retention and encourage pollinators. (AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall)

Amanda Beltramini Healan stands among the plants in her backyard in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, May 19, 2025, where she participates in No Mow Months to improve water retention and encourage pollinators. (AP Photo/Kristin M. Hall)

Why didn’t the same happen in the U.S. farmworkers?Some experts wonder whether people have some level of immunity, due to past exposure to other forms of flu or to vaccinations. However, a study in which human blood samples were exposed to the virus

there’s little to no existing immunity to this version of the virus, including among people who’d had seasonal flu shots.A more menacing question: What happens if the virus mutates in a way that makes it more lethal to people or allows it to spread more easily?Pigs are a concern because they are considered ideal mixing vessels for bird flu to potentially combine with other flu viruses to create something more dangerous. Baker has been studying the current strain in pigs and found it can replicate in the lungs, but the disease is very mild.

But that could all change, which is why there’s a push in the scientific community to ramp up animal testing.Frieden, of Resolve to Save Lives, noted public health experts have been worried about a deadly new flu pandemic for a long time.

“The only thing predictable about influenza is it’s unpredictable,” he said.

The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.“This is not streamlining,” said Shawn VanDiver, a Navy veteran and head of #AfghanEvac. “This is deliberate dismantling.”

CARE, which stands for the Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts, was created in October 2021 in the aftermath of the withdrawal. The office was designed to help Afghans, like interpreters who aided the U.S. military, who were eligible for resettlement in the U.S. due to their work helping America during the war.The State Department notification says its work will be “realigned” to the Afghanistan Affairs Office.

Over time, CARE was credited with streamlining visa and immigration processes that many people helping Afghans and Iraqis, who benefited from similar resettlement programs, said were overly bureaucratic, opaque and left at-risk Afghans waiting for far too long on programs specifically intended to help them.In December, then-President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which included a provision authorizing the CARE office for three years, but ever since President Donald Trump took office, concerns have loomed over the office’s future.