In February of two thousand and twenty-one, Russia detected the first transmission of avian influenza, H5N8.<br>The virus is deadly to birds, but it has never been transmitted to man, and in Russia this has occurred, it has not been defined that the virus is deadly to man, but that means that an animal virus, in constant contact with man, ends up an hour adapting to man.<br>We can analyze that the viruses are very linked to the act of eating meat, since it needs to increase the number of animals, and man needs to get in touch with them. And so viruses begin to circulate and adapt to humans, and are finally able to transmit between humans.<br>Thus, we have a clear definition that the more a population eats animal meat, the more likely it is that an epidemic of a new virus will occur.<br>virus, H5N8, Russia, transmission, vegetarianism, animals, birds, avian flu, mutations