As public health officials grow increasingly more concerned about the spread of the H5N1 bird virus among cattle stocks in the U.S., there are parallels being drawn to the start of the COVID pandemic.

And those parallels aren't exactly hopeful.

Dr. Art Caplan heads the medical ethics department at NYU ... he tells KNX News that in just a few short years, we've seemingly forgotten ALL of the lessons we should've learned from COVID.

He says we're once again letting our guard down as the bird flu is spreading.

Dr. Caplan tells us even if the H5N1 virus doesn't turn into a global threat ... the next dangerous virus is likely already out there.

The latest round of bird flu testing in cows shows signs of the dead virus actually making into the milk supply that ends up supermarket shelves.