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The risks of you, personally, getting h5n1 right now is low. However given that variants seem to have as high as 50% mortality rate, the biggest risk is that one of these variants could make the jump to humans and become transmissible.

The most likely way this would occur is someone getting sick with both h5n1 and a less severe flu at the same time, and they share genetic information.

In other words, severe transmissible h5n1 could develop over the holidays.