Scientists are investigating the possibility that bird flu has been transmitted between mammals in the wild for the first time – fuelling fears it could lead to the next pandemic in humans ⬇️ janemerrick23 reports:
: “If this turns out to be sustained transmission in a wild mammalian species this is yet another worrying ‘first’ with these H5N1s that shouldn’t be ignored. It would be yet more evidence these H5N1s could be poised to cause the next pandemic.”
Defra is aware of the developments in the Caspian Sea and the report by Dagestan State University that it has identified avian flu in seal tissue,H5N1 has been responsible for the deaths, from both infection and culling, of millions of birds in the UK and globally, with farmers ordered to bring free range turkey and other poultry indoors from last autumn.
In the waters around Britain, stranded seals are collected and any possible cause of death is investigated for disease including avian flu. No seals, dolphins or whales have yet tested positive for bird flu around Britain during the current outbreak, which began in December 2021, but there have been previous cases in these sea mammals.The UK Health Security Agency has advised people not to handle sick or dead poultry or other birds.
Alimurad Gadzhiev, director of the Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development at DSU, said: “Specialists of the Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development, together with colleagues from the Research Institute of Virology and experts from the Compass Foundation, took tissue samples from dead seals in December to determine the causes of death. Based on the first results, we can say that the samples tested positive for bird flu.
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