H5N1 can spread through the air

An additional study confirms that, with just a few genetic changes, the avian influenza virus could become a global pandemic.

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Half a year ago, a European study aimed at creating variant versions of bird flu sparked a wave of controversy. Opponents call this a "super virus" with the ability to spread extremely dangerous and immune to all forms of antibiotics that humans have. Because of so many concerns, this study had to pause midway to avoid post-production.

H5N1 virus variant is created in the laboratory

However, half a year later, the second and final study on this issue was published. The authors describe how the H5N1 virus - through several genetic changes - can spread, spreads through the air. This is the premise for a 'global flu pandemic'.

The study was conducted at the Ron Fouchier Laboratory of Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands and published in Science magazine at the end of June. Scientists found that just 5 gene changes were enough to H5N1 virus can pass through the air to infect ferrets in the laboratory.

However, Science's article revealed that the variant virus that Ron Fouchier created was not as deadly as the previous concerns. In fact, the flu virus does not kill any ferrets infected by air.

Only when the authors inject the high-dose virus directly into the weasel body does the subject die.'This high dose is absolutely not a natural mechanism of infection' , they assert.

Another finding is that the H5N1 variant cannot spread effectively with the H1N1 virus that caused a global pandemic in 2009.