Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO
- The World Health Organization is alarmed by the spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face a high mortality rate.
- The WHO's chief scientist, Jeremy Farrar, expressed significant concern about the situation in Geneva.
- To date, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the influenza A virus.
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South China Morning Post
WHO says human cases of bird flu ‘an enormous concern’
The World Health Organization voiced alarm at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate.
The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its "great concern" this Thursday over the growing spread of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza to other species, including humans. "This remains, I believe, a great concern," said Jeremy Farrar, scientific director of the UN health agency, at a press conference in Geneva. The main concern is that the H5N1 virus, which has "an extraordinarily high mortality rate" in people infected by contact with an…
Lead scientist expresses fears over H5N1 variant having 'extremely high' death rate in humans
More recently, the spread of the virus in several mammal species, including domestic cattle in the US, increased the risk of the virus spreading among humans, says the WHO
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