Bird flu has crossed over to cows in AmericaAn urgent warning has been raised over bird flu potentially returning to British shores. Experts are saying one thing which could bring bird flu back to Britain and potentially see a pandemic in humans is the drinking of unpasteurised milk. He said it was bad enough when people were drinking it amid concerns it could contain listeria, now he says it could pass on a bird flu pandemic in humans with a death rate of 50 percent. Bird flu has crossed over to cows in AmericaBird flu has already become a pandemic in birds with stretches of dead birds covering beaches across South America, where they died in their thousands. Professor Wendy Barclay, chair in influenza virology at Imperial College London, told the Times the UK was on "high alert".

Source: The Times May 18, 2024 16:09 UTC