USA 🇺🇸/ European Union 🇪🇺: The USA and European countries consider vaccinating workers exposed to avian influenza.

The USA and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 avian influenza vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk birds and workers in dairy farms, veterinarians, and laboratory technicians, government officials said. Influenza experts say this could contain the threat of a pandemic, according to a report by the "Reuters" agency.