Who focusses on emerging infectious diseases, said on X that “there is only so much we can predict from these sequence data and we don’t know.
What combination of mutations would lead to a pandemic H5N1 virus.” “However, the likelihood of a pandemic virus emerging increases with the number of infected humans.” In the United States,
There have been 66 confirmed or documented human cases of avian flu so far. California, which declared a bird flu state of emergency a few weeks ago, has seen the majority of cases.
