When should we worry about bird flu making us sick? When we see human-to-human transmission – and there's no evidence of that yet
- Written by: Ash Porter, Research officer, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Bird flu has been causing growing concern in recent months, with hundreds of millions of birds dying of the virus since October 2021. This is the largest global outbreak.
Last week, an 11-year-old child in Cambodia died from bird flu, prompting concern about spillover from wild birds and poultry to humans. But the cases we’ve seen in...
