Bird flu alert + more

🌐 Your briefing threads from the WorldWise desk.

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🌐 WorldWise Briefing Threads | key headlines curated to make sense of the news.

A low risk right now, but “worrying”.

That’s the gist of expert opinion as more reports indicate concerns over a rise in infections with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza among mammals—which increase the possibility that the virus could evolve to spread more easily between people.

The latest concerns stem from the death of an 11-year-old girl in Cambodia, and the discovery of another case within the same family when her contacts were tested. It’s still not clear whether the virus passed from one person to another, or whether they caught it from infected animals.