Bird Flu Likely Candidate for ‘Next Pandemic’: Australian Professor

This comes less than a week before the WHO meet to discuss the pandemic treaty.

A person holds a test tube labelled "Bird Flu" in a picture illustration on Jan. 14, 2023. Dado Ruvic/Reuters

A scientist at the Australian National University claims the next pandemic could be just around the corner and bird flu is a “likely candidate.”

The infectious disease physician made the comments on May 23, after the first Australian case of human bird flu H5N1 was announced and H7N3 was detected on a poultry farm in regional Victoria.