A scientist at the Australian National University claims the next pandemic could be just around the corner and bird flu is a “likely candidate.”
The infectious disease physician made the comments on May 23, after the first Australian case of human bird flu H5N1 was announced and H7N3 was detected on a poultry farm in regional Victoria.
Associate Professor of Medicine Sanjaya Senanayake suggested a pandemic could be on the way soon and it will likely be bird flu.
“Despite having ‘COVID fatigue’ and not wanting to hear the word ‘pandemic’ again, the next pandemic could be just around the corner, and a strain of bird flu is a likely candidate,” Dr. Senanayake said....
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