EU Warns of Potential Bird Flu Pandemic

The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) issued a stark warning regarding the looming threat of a large-scale bird flu pandemic, underscoring the potential consequences if the virus were to transition to humans and establish human-to-human transmission. The agency's cautionary statement comes in the wake of alarming reports from Texas, where the H5N1 strain of bird flu was detected in an individual with contact history with infected dairy cows.

While human immunity to the virus remains absent, EFSA's concerns are amplified by the virus's geographical spread, encompassing regions as remote as Antarctica, and its ability to infect a widening array of mammals....