{"id":157318,"date":"2025-11-28T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157318\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:31:09","slug":"bird-flu-could-cause-pandemic-worse-than-covid-if-virus-mutates-institut-pasteur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157318\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird flu could cause pandemic worse than COVID if virus mutates: Institut Pasteur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    PARIS \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the head of France\u2019s Institut Pasteur respiratory infections center said.<\/p>\n<p>The highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has led to the culling of hundreds of millions of birds in the past few years, disrupting food supplies and driving up prices, though human infections remain rare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we fear is the virus adapting to mammals, and particularly to humans, becoming capable of human-to-human transmission, and that virus would be a pandemic virus,\u201d Marie-Anne Rameix-Welti, medical director at the Institut Pasteur\u2019s respiratory infections center, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2013 The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30681,2815,1221,134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-157318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-bird-flu","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}