World’s largest avian flu outbreak spreads to sea lions

World Today

Over the past 18 months, the world has seen the largest-ever avian influenza outbreak. Now the disease has spread to South America and has switched from mostly domestic birds to wild ones. 

But there’s a new concern for scientists, the spread of the deadly virus from birds to mammals, in this case, sea lions in Peru.  

Could the spread put humans at risk?

CGTN’s Dan Collyns shared the latest from Peru.