A Bird-Flu Pandemic in People? Hereβs What It Might Look Like. NYT: Science By: Apoorva Mandavilli 20 June 2024 at 14:39 There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may not be sufficient. Β© Guadalupe Pardo/Associated PressWorkers in Lima, Peru, collected dead pelicans from a beach in 2022. The H5N1 virus has been rapidly gaining new hosts.