1 hour ago Related video: Helen Clark slams China's 'failures, delays and gaps in action' for letting COVID-19 turn into a pandemic. Credits: Video - The AM Show; Image - Getty Images With news that another animal virus has made the leap to humans in China, it's perhaps not surprising the world's fourth-biggest country is being singled out as the most likely source of the next pandemic. The rare H10N3 strain of bird flu put a man in hospital, China confirmed this week, the first-ever such infection in humans. While the strain only causes mild illness in poultry and the threat of another pandemic is thankfully considered low, China is also where both of the SARS coronaviruses originated - the first killing hundreds in the early 2000s, the second behind the COVID-19 pandemic that's killed millions in the past 18 months.