'This is an infection that has epidemic and pandemic potential,' said one doctor. 'I don't know if people recognize how big a deal this is.'
French officials who said that the virus showed genetic characteristics consistent with adaptation to mammals.Jürgen Richt, director of the Center on Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at Kansas State University.
Michelle Wille, a University of Sydney researcher who focuses on the dynamics of wild bird viruses, told the Canadian outlet that"this outbreak signals the very real potential for the emergence of mammal-to-mammal transmission." But if the seals did give bird flu to each other it"would be yet another very concerning development," he added.
the World Health Organization , nearly 870 cases of H5N1 were reported in humans from 2003 to 2022 and they resulted in at least 457 deaths—a fatality rate that exceeds 50%.last month."Thus the likelihood of human-to-human spread is low."that the"rapid and consistent acquisition of the mutation in mammals may imply this virus has a propensity to cause zoonotic infections," meaning that it could jump to humans.
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