• Isabel Shaw

• Published: 7:31 ET,Apr 26 2023
• Updated: 11:30 ET,Apr 26 2023

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• https://www.the-sun.com/health/7967379/dog-flu-bird-flu-evolved-humans/

TAKE cover next time your dog sneezes – they could be carrying a potentially deadly virus.

Scientists fromChinahave warned that ‘dog flu’ – a mutated form of bird flu – has adapted to make it better suited to infecting humans.

The bird bug, which first infected dogs in 2006, has now evolved to become a mammalian-adapted form of avian influenza, they said.

Bird flu is highly contagiousand deadly among birds, but has never been shown to cause sustained transmission from person to person.

However, scientists have long-feared that if the…