OH NO - SURELY NOT !Could bird flu cause a Covid-like pandemic and another major world upheaval?

 Could bird flu cause a Covid-like pandemic? Everything you need to know about H5N1 - the strain with a 50% kill rate that may be spreading among people for first time in decades

• Like all flus, the virus spreads from birds to humans mainly via droplets in the air
• It kills almost 100 percent of birds and roughly half of humans who get the virus
• But scientists are reassuring people there is no need to panic
  
  
  
  A fresh outbreak of bird flu cases in humans has emerged in Cambodia, leading to fears a new Covid-like pandemic could be on the horizon.

• The father of an 11-year-old girl who died from bird flu this week has also tested positive for the H5N1 strain. Eleven more are being tested for the virus, four of whom are symptomatic.

  It's still unclear if the parent caught the virus from his daughter or if they were both exposed to the same reservoir - likely an infected bird. But it could be the first example of human-to-human spread since an outbreak in Hong Kong in the late nineties.

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