US EditionRisk 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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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…
The main concern is that by "infecting cats and chickens and increasingly mammals, this virus evolves" and then develops "the ability to go from human to human," according to WHO.
Nearly 900 cases of bird flu have been detected worldwide in more than a year, some of them infected with the H5N1 strain. More than half of the patients died.
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