The next pandemic could spark from a disease with a 40 percent mortality rate within just two decades, top virologists say — warning Covid could have been just the tip of the pandemic iceberg.
DailyMail.com spoke to three virus experts who agreed a respiratory virus — spread via droplets from coughs and sneezes — was most likely to trigger the next fast-spreading disease that causes a global shutdown.
They said the infamous ‘disease X’ would most likely appear after a
UK scientists working at a state-of-the-art lab are preparing for bird flu to spread to people.
Health chiefs today unveiled a top-secret super lab within Porton Down that aims to boost pandemic preparedness and create a vaccine within 100 days of a new virus taking off.
Top scientists at the site confirmed they are readying the tools that would be needed if the H5N1 bird flu strain — which is behind an outbreak sweeping the world — took off in
Holidaymakers have been urged to avoid contact with unwell or dead birds over fears they could be infected with bird flu.
The ongoing UK outbreak — caused by the H5N1 strain — has seen up to one million birds struck down by the virus, with experts fearing it is on the brink of taking off in humans.
The National Trust, which owns around 800 miles of Britain’s coastline, is urging visitors to the country’s beaches be wary of bird flu.
Two British poultry workers have tested positive for bird flu, making them only the second and third human cases ever recorded in the UK.
Health chiefs today revealed they are monitoring the threat ‘very carefully’ amid ever-growing fears another human pandemic is lurking around the corner.
But no signs of human-to-human transmission have yet been detected in the UK.
So what are the signs of bird flu? How deadly is the virus? And what measures are in place to
For three years now, the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ping-ponged between two big ideas: that SARS-CoV-2 spilled into human populations directly from a wild-animal source, and that the pathogen leaked from a lab. Through a swirl of data obfuscation by Chinese authorities and politicalization within the United States, and rampant speculation from all corners of the world, many scientists have stood by the notion that this outbreak—like most others—had purely natural roots. But that hypothesis
A Cambodian schoolgirl who became 2023’s first bird flu victim can be pictured for the first time today.
Eleven-year-old Bean Narong died on February 22 after catching Type A HN51 in the impoverished Rolaing Village in the southeastern province of Prey Veng.
The girl — the youngest of four siblings — was a star student who rarely missed class and dreamed of becoming a doctor. Her father Bou Vorn was also diagnosed with the virus, sparking international concern the pathogen
What will be the next pandemic, and what, if anything, can be done to stop it?
This is the question MailOnline put to experts who sat on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) panel during the Covid crisis.
Their answers come as concerns around the globe continue to grow on if bird flu could spill over to people and cause a new pandemic.
Earlier this week, China reported two human cases of bird flu in a man and woman
Britain should be stockpiling more antivirals and PPE for bird flu, according to an expert who helped guide the Government through Covid.
Professor Peter Openshaw, who sat on two influential SAGE committees during the pandemic, said it was essential to start preparing for the worst-case scenario.
His comments come as fears of an avian influenza crisis in humans have drastically escalated over the past fortnight.
The unprecedented outbreak, which began sweeping the world 18 months ago, has jumped from birds
A fascinating map today laid bare the UK’s bird flu hotspots amid fears the killer virus could jump to humans.
Since the nation’s biggest ever outbreak began in October 2021, more than 1,000 infections of the killer H5N1 strain have been detected among wild birds.
Experts are concerned recently spotted cases among Britain’s foxes, otters and seals are a sign that the virus is gaining mutations that could help it infect humans more easily.
Officials yesterday confirmed that they are
A dozen people in Cambodia are suspected of being infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain in the same province where an 11-year-old girl died on Wednesday – raising fears the virus may be spreading from human to human for the first time in decades.
Scientists are modelling how a worst-case scenario bird flu outbreak could sweep the UK if the virus spread to humans.
The Khmer Times – a local newspaper – reported that the suspected patients have all
