Fears of a new pandemic have been raised in a horror study which suggests the world isn’t doing enough to monitor the spread of a deadly flu virus. A study of bird flu transmission between mammals led by The Pirbright Institute suggests global control measures for the H5N1 avian flu virus aren’t strong enough. H5N1 … Read more
Scientists have issued a warning after an outbreak of bird flu in cows that has now spread from animals to humans. Earlier this year, the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed they had discovered the first case of someone catching bird flu from a cow. The incident, which was recorded in April … Read more
(NewsNation) — Is a bird flu pandemic imminent? Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield seems to think so, he says it’s just a matter of when that will be. In the last two years, bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds worldwide. However, … Read more
A health expert has warned of the potential for another pandemic following the death of one person in Mexico. The former director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, revealed that the next pandemic could be from bird flu. Mortality rates would likely be much higher than COVID-19, he said, … Read more
The roadmap to human infection of bird flu could pose a potential future nightmare scenario, an expert has warned, as colleagues say it could be the next pandemic “100 times worse than Covid”. Millions of birds, along with other species of animals including dogs and cats, have died from the virus over the past two … Read more
