The current strain of avian flu, H5N1, is responsible for the culling of millions of domestic birds and has sickened more than a dozen farmworkers in 2024^[1], most recently in Colorado^[2].

The Conversation U.S. asked immunologist and microbiologist^[3] Jenna Guthmiller^[4] from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to explain the historical roots of H5N1, its mode of transmission and how to avoid coming into contact...

Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet health care professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness and dying in an intensely stressful setting as a routine, ongoing part of their jobs.

Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, research was documenting rampant stress and burnout^[1] among health care professionals.

The effects of this crisis are...