WHO Says Comorbidities, Not Bird Flu, Cause of a Mexican Man’s Death, Changes Initial Report

Mexican officials have determined that a man previously thought to have died from a rare bird flu instead died from other comorbidities, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO initially reported on June 5 that in May a 59-year-old man was admitted to a hospital in Mexico City, Mexico, after having been “bedridden for three weeks” and was diagnosed with a rare strain of bird flu called H5N2, marking the first “laboratory-confirmed human case” of this strain of bird flu infection globally and the first case reported in Mexico. The strain is different from H5N1, which has affected livestock in the United States, infecting three dairy workers....