Thursday's Health Report: Infectious disease experts provide answers to questions about bird flu

BATON ROUGE — There have been a lot of recent reports about bird flu, raising a lot of questions about its impact on humans.“Right now there is a low risk, because it is seen mainly seen in birds, but there's been rare cases, so we need to remain vigilant. there is no documented human-to-human transmission at this point, so it is in the community but still at a lower risk,” infectious disease doctor Lysette Cardona said.While rare, bird flu is contracted when a per