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A woman in China has become the first person to die from a type of bird flu that is rare in humans – so how worried should we be about the virus? Katie Strick reports
Infected person. live now to professor peter openshaw from imperial college london. thank you so much forjoining us on bbc news. covid, it is an issue that still keeps coming around three years later. one of the questions people don't seem to have got to the bottom of yet is how did it start? does this report tell us any more? the two main theories are that it grows spontaneously as an animal to human transmission, probably in this market, where there were wild animals being sold for food. market, where there were wild animals being sold forfood. the other is of course that it was perhaps from...
The move - sparked by an unprecedented avian influenza wave that has swept the world over the last 18 months - would mark a shock U-turn in UK health policy.
EXCLUSIVE: Professor Peter Openshaw, an immunologist who sat on two SAGE committees, has urged ministers to boost supplies of virus-fighting drugs and PPE in case of an outbreak.
UK health experts are sharing details of their Covid-style plans against bird flu, including modelling for the unlikely scenario that it could mutate and cause a pandemic in people.