Hello furry mammal are you the next pandemic?

Wherever you look, viruses are going into and coming out of animals.

Mostly this happens without much fanfare, though occasionally it causes big problems.

Which is why it's concerning that researchers in Europe have started to sound the alarm about fur farms in Europe and other researchers looking at pig farms have found more swine flu variants than they expected.

So what's going on?

References:

• Infection prevention and control in the context of coronavirus disease (COVID-19): a living guideline, 10 August 2023
• Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection on multiple fur farms in the South and Central Ostrobothnia regions of Finland, July 2023
• The genomic landscape of swine influenza A viruses in Southeast Asia