Of the 58 people in the U.S. who have been infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus this year, all but two of them had contact with cows or chickens, two species in which the virus is circulating. Scientists are finding that reassuring, but a concerning new study says the strain is only one mutation away from being able to bind more easily to human cells. @time has more.

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