Kai Kupferschmidt on Nostr: One thing to remember is that compared to some other influenza viruses H5N1 actually ...

One thing to remember is that compared to some other influenza viruses H5N1 actually faces pretty high barriers to becoming a human-to-human pathogen. I wrote a story a little over a year ago outlining some of the changes it would probably need:
https://www.science.org/content/article/bad-worse-avian-flu-must-change-trigger-human-pandemic