Using laboratory ferrets and mice, researchers from China and the UK found that humans could be "vulnerable" to infection from the H3N8 strain of bird flu at "epidemic or pandemic proportions"
A top public health expert who advised the Scottish Government during the Covid pandemic has called on the UK to do more to prepare for the next epidemic that could be brewing in animals across the country
Professor Devi Sridhar, of Edinburgh University, said there are signals of a pattern emerging in avian flu s mutations, which means it could take off among humans at some point .