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Scientists at the European CDC, however, have expressed some concern about the virus adapting to mammals.
Some evidence has emerged to suggest the virus was infecting animals like foxes, which could indicate the potential to adapt to human transmission.
A report from the health group read: “The additional reports of transmission events to mammals, e.g. seals and a fox as well as seroepidemiological evidence of transmission to wild boar, could indicate evolutionary processes, including mammal adaptation with the possibility to acquire the ability to transmit to humans.”
To date, no one in the UK has been infected with the H5N1, H7N9, H5N6 or H5N8 bird flu.
However, there have been cases of the H5N8 and H5N1 infecting some birds in the wild and in captivity.
According to the NHS, some cases of the H5N6 virus has been found in wild birds but these appear to be different strains to the Chinese virus.
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