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The H5N1 virus is a long way from becoming adapted to humans, but limited testing and tracking mean we could miss danger signs. The H5N1 virus is a long way from becoming adapted to humans, but limited testing and tracking mean we could miss danger signs.

Experts worry the highly pathogenic virus could yet mutate to be passed human to human

Experts worry the highly pathogenic virus could yet mutate to be passed human to human

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The number of coronavirus cases in Germany has been rising continuously for about six weeks. For the last week, the RKI, Germany’s infectious disease agency, reported 4,000 coronavirus infections, double the number of a month ago.

H5N1 is causing outbreaks among mammals at a scale previously unseen, including in the past month at a number of Finnish fur farms.

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Mutations that accelerate the replication of the influenza virus in mammal cells have been detected at two farms in Finland, according to the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

The World Health Organization (WHO), the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), yesterday formalized the designation of the University Hospital Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases as a WHO collaborating center for epidemic and pandemic diseases.

Top virologists from across the world have sounded the alarm after tests confirmed the H5N1 bird flu strain was spreading between mammals at a farm in Spain.