Bird Flu 2.0

[Wintermind]

anyone who is scared of this is literally an idiot

 

[Jebus]

On a flu related note, How often does a flu virus mutate?

Thousands of times every single day.

 

[Yoshi525]

^This. You have to remember that a mutation can occur virtually anywhere in the RNA sequence that is the virus' overall genome. As Jebus says - the reproductive cycle of orthomxyoviridae is so rapid in our terms that thousands and thousands of genetic mutations spring up every day. A mutation would need to alter the binding properties of the viral capsid in a very specific way for the virus to be transmitted human to human.