It’s four mutations away from the bird flu virus spreading to humans and triggering a pandemic. writes about it daily mail.
According to the publication, the virus has been given ample opportunity to spread as it has raged among birds and mammals around the world in recent years. And whenever a virus begins to replicate in a new host, it gets another chance to mutate and potentially acquire one of these deadly traits.
Thanks to the new mutations, the virus may gain the ability to survive in the air and optimize itself to infect human cells.
“This is a threat that will continue to knock on our door until we really do cause an epidemic,” said Matilde Richard, virologist at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands.
Formerly Pavel Volchkov, virologist, head of the MIPT Genomic Engineering Laboratory aforementionedthat no one in the world is immune to the new H3N8 avian flu.