Risk of Bird Flu Spreading to Humans Is Great Concern: World Health Organization

Published on April 19, 2024

There’s a risk avian influenza, after spreading to several new mammal species, will begin to infect more humans, the chief scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on April 18. Highly pathogenic avian influenza A, or H5N1, has recently infected cows and goats in the United States, after spreading among chickens for years. H5N1 has kept circulating to new species and has “become a global zoonotic animal pandemic,” Jeremy Farrar, the WHO’s chief scientist, told reporters in Geneva. “The great concern, of course, is that in doing so, and infecting ducks and chickens but now increasingly mammals, that that virus now evolves and develops the ability to infect humans, and then critically the ability to go from human to human,” he added....

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