Bird flu discovered in U.S. dairy cows is ‘disturbing’ - Scientist who tracks infections on cattle farms discusses implications of recently announced virus detections

Public health officials have stressed that the risk to humans from the virus remains low.

The fuck do you mean "low"

H5N1 has a measured 60% mortality rate in humans

The probability of a human H5N1 pandemic may be low, although nonzero, and every year that goes by is another cycle of the trigger with fingers crossed that the thing doesn't go off. But the risk to humans from that low probability is astronomical.