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Worldwide mortality estimates range all the way from 2-7.4 million deaths (the "conservatively low" pandemic influenza calculation of a flu modeling expert at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to 1000 million deaths (the bird flu pandemic prediction of one Russian virologist).
26 lis 2024 · Monthly number of human cases with highly pathogenic avian influenza A/H5N1. WHO, Global Influenza Programme (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. This dataset contains all human infections with HPAI A (H5N1 ) bird flu virus reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), since the first human cases in 1997.
7 wrz 2023 · From January 2013 to June 2022, there were reports of 34 bird flu virus subtypes during more than 21,000 bird flu outbreaks in animals and 2,000 human infections with bird flu viruses globally. On average 42 member states reported AI outbreaks in animals each year.
22 lis 2024 · Avian influenza A (H5N1), or bird flu, has killed millions of wild birds, and caused sporadic outbreaks among poultry and an ongoing multistate outbreak among cows in the United States. While there has been no known person-to-person transmission of the virus, there have been 55 reported human cases in the U.S. in 2024.
6 dni temu · H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in poultry and U.S. dairy cows with several recent human cases in U.S. dairy and poultry workers. While the current public health risk is low, CDC is watching the situation carefully and working with states to monitor people with animal exposures.
2 maj 2024 · 54 countries reported H5N1 bird flu outbreaks in birds in 2021 and 2022. A pair of northern pintail ducks. Bird flu viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds worldwide. Wild aquatic birds include waterbirds (waterfowl) such as ducks, geese, swans, gulls, and terns, and shorebirds, such as storks and plovers.
9 lut 2023 · What is avian influenza (bird flu)? Why are we concerned about bird flu outbreaks? What are the control measures in birds and animals? How do outbreaks of avian influenza spread? etc.
