Potentially pandemic avian influenza

Due to outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza hundreds of millions of birds have been culled in recent years causing disruptions in food supply chains and rising prices, then the risk of a pandemic worse than that caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus for Covid-19 is increasing, although for the moment human infections remain quite rare. According to experts the problem is that the virus could adapt to infect mammals and then humans potentially leading to human-to-human transmission, but unlike SARS-CoV-2 which was mainly lethal for vulnerable individuals avian influenza could be deadly for healthy individuals, including children; however several antiviral medicines are available that should be effective against the avian influenza virus allowing for vaccine preparation.

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