Bird flu outbreak being closely monitored as virus mutation 'could pose threat to human health'

The growing bird flu outbreak is being closely monitored as if the virus mutates it could pose a “significant threat” to human health 🔴Exclusive DavidParsley50

has confirmed cases of bird flu being transmitted to wild mammals, including foxes and sea life such as seals and dolphins in and around the UK, as well as across Europe and in the US.

Leading influenza virologist Professor Wendy Barclay of Imperial College London, who sits on the Government FluMap panel, says “it’s a roll of the dice” that will decide if bird flu mutates to become airborne and highly transmissible to humans Professor Barclay, who is a member of FluMap, says: “It’s important to emphasise that at the moment it’s very hard for the virus to be transmitted to humans.

with the H5N1 avian flu virus over the past 20 years. The Government puts the mortality rate of people contracting bird flu at 60 per cent, compared to a death rate for the peak of Covid-19 of just two per cent. , contracted the disease from the rescue ducks on his bird sanctuary. Mr Gosling survived the disease and was given the all-clear in January.

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