The bird flu virus has been found by scientists not to be as harmful to humans as it is to birds due to the way in whcuh it spreads within the human body. this is due to the fact that the virus prefers to infect cells which are situated in the lungs as oppossed to the windpipe, whcih means that it is not as easilt coughed or sneezed into the air. 


However should the virus mutate, its behaviou could possiby change and unleash a fatal outbreak of influenza