Public health officials and scientists have been on high alert since the second-ever human infection of a “highly pathogenic” strain of bird flu from the cattle industry in Texas in this spring, prompting rapid coordination efforts between multiple government agencies to contain the outbreak.

“Don’t panic. Do be careful,” avian influenza specialist at Johns Hopkins Medicine Kawswar Talaat told the Washington Examiner as her primary piece of advice to the general public. “It is absolutely something that scientists are watching very carefully.”