Hopefully, Strictly For the Birds?

The H5N8 strain of of bird 'flu is deadly to our avian friends. Domestic poultry are presumed to pick up this infection from wild birds. For presumably the first time, the H5N8 strain has infected 7 poultry workers in Siberia (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/20/bird-flu-humans-infected-with-h5n8-strain-for-first-time-in-russia). Fortunately, the poultry workers have now all recovered and there was no evidence of human to human transmission. There is, of course, always the possibility that mutations in the multiple strains of bird 'flu virus, will make human to human transmission possible. After all, this is what happened with Covid-19.