A person suffering from bird flu could have 'created a new pandemic' by travelling to Scotland
A person suffering from bird flu could have 'created a new pandemic' by travelling to Scotland while infected with the killer virus, experts have warned.
"Covid started with one case in Wuhan. [Bird flus'] capacity of human-to-human spread is getting more probable. Pandemics emerge almost from nowhere, randomly and under a blue sky. "If the strain were to develop human-to-human transmission then this would have been pretty disastrous. It would be sensible to avoid contact with other people if exposed to H5N1."
The Mail reports that health chiefs are confident anyone potentially at risk in Scotland has already been contacted. It has not been revealed how those affected contracted the disease, but only two bird flu control zones were enforced in England at the time. But no restrictions were imposed on their movement while they awaited the results, and one headed to Scotland. Swabs were sent to a special laboratory, in a process that can take several days.
Subsequent tests for both workers came back negative. But experts say hundreds of people were potentially exposed to bird flu during the worker's jaunt before their positive test result came back.
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