There is no evidence bird flu will start spreading between people but experts are preparing for any scenario.
UK health experts are sharing details of their Covid-style plans against bird flu, including modelling for the unlikely scenario that it could mutate and cause a pandemic in people.
Humans rarely get bird flu, but when they do it is usually from coming into direct contact with infected birds. When the Covid pandemic hit, there were no suitable vaccines available to fight that virus. But for bird flu, there are already several good candidates that might help. He told the BBC that the fact that we are still in a Covid pandemic in no way lessened the possibility of another pandemic coming from elsewhere."The good news at the moment is that there's no evidence of human-to-human spread."Not another pandemic" might well be the exasperated response of many to talk of the risks from bird flu.
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