Experts have warned that the recent detection of bird flu in mammals including foxes, otters, minks, seals, and even grizzly bears is concerning but emphasized that the virus would have to significantly mutate to spread between humans.
"We are not fully sure why it's happening now but we think this might be driven by a slightly different strain of H5N1 which is spreading very effectively in wild, migratory birds," Peacock said.
A researcher at Russia's Dagestan State University, Alimurad Gadzhiyev, said last week that early samples from the seals"tested positive for bird flu", adding that they were still studying whether the virus caused the die-off. "The mink outbreaks, the increased number of infections of scavenger mammals and the potential seal outbreak would all point to this virus having the potential to cause a pandemic" in humans, he said.David Heymann, an infectious disease specialist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, urged caution.
If H5N1 did mutate into a strain that could circulate among humans, the current seasonal flu vaccine could be fairly easily updated to include it, he said.
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