While risk of a mass outbreak of bird flu among people remains low the 60 per cent fatality rate has led to a global race for a human vaccine. 💉 🔴 Exclusive from David Parsley
Labs in Australia, Japan, the UK and US are working together to produce a working vaccine 2.3.4.4b strain of the H5N1 virus as concerns grow that it could mutate to become easily transmissible to people and cause a second global pandemic in three years.
The MHRA is a member of one of four international WHO Essential Regulatory Laboratories, namely the WHO Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System . The current outbreak of avian flu has already led to the culling of almost four million birds such as chickens, ducks and turkeys in the UK and almost 100 million birds worldwide. 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.
She said: “We are monitoring for signs of the virus mutating and potentially becoming airborne. That’s how pandemics happen.
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