Tag: Avian influenza

The WHO is desperate for another pandemic, says Dr David Bell, and seems determined that bird flu is going to be it. So much is riding on it coming along that you can be sure it will.

Health authorities have been ramping up the fear over 'Bird Flu' as WHO reports the 'first death' in Mexico. But the Mexican Health Secretary disagrees, pointing out the man had died from "kidney and respiratory failure".

A bird flu strain that killed a schoolgirl in Cambodia has evolved to better infect human cells, scientists claim – but there is no human-to-human transmission and it's "unlikely to cause a major outbreak".

The UKHSA stopped its Covid modelling last month, but it has already begun to model bird flu. But when is it going to address the abysmal record of pandemic modelling when compared to real-world outcomes?

The UK's worst ever avian influenza outbreak has devastated poultry farms this year and prompted 'lockdowns' to try to protect the birds. But does this make any more sense for hens than for humans?