Does that mean you shouldn't travel home for the holidays? Well, it's a complicated thing to answer.
There's almost no risk of *you* developing transmissible h5n1 over the holidays.
But there's a risk that, society-wise, a highly transmissible and high morbidity h5n1 variant could make the jump to humans *because of* the holidays.
So when we get *back* from the holidays, that might start to spread.