the world will be in danger of suffering from a worldwide pandemic

In a worrying new development the father of a Chinese man who passed away from the bird flu has now contracted it himself. The reason why health authorities are concerned is because they believe it is possible that the father caught the virus directly from his son as opposed to having contracted it from being in close proximity with a bird with the H5N1 bird flu virus.

The National Disease Authority in China has confirmed officially that Mr. Lu from Nanjing has caught the bird flu virus but did not actually state how he contracted it.  To date no person has caught the bird flu virus from contact with another human nevertheless it is probable that the bird flu virus will mutate into a form which will make it contagious between humans as opposed to contagious just from birds to humans. When this happens (and scientists say it is bound to happen soon) the virus will be a far more dangerous to the human race than it is now.

This is because obviously humans have far greater contact with their fellow humans than they do with birds and so the chances of them getting it would be much increased when the virus mutates into this human to human type. Scientists say that when the virus mutates into this human to human form the world will be in danger of suffering from a worldwide pandemic which could wipe out millions of people.  This sort of virus has hit the world before most notably early on in the twentieth century when the Spanish Flu killed millions of people all over the EU.

Many countries in Asia where it is customary to have your chickens living in backyards are at much greater liklihood of contracting the bird flu virus especially because the younger children tend to play in the same places as where the animals live. There have been no reported human instances of the bird flu in first world countries.