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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).
10 paź 2024 · To curb the U.S. spread of the H5N1 bird flu in 2024, farmers killed millions of their chickens. But scientists worry that this culling could slow the development of vaccines against the virus. Why?
26 kwi 2024 · Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. In the handful of human cases seen so far it has been extremely deadly. The tips of Lineke Begeman's fingers are...
26 lis 2024 · Monthly reported human cases of H5N1, a type of highly-pathogenic avian influenza. Only a small fraction of potential cases are tested by labs to confirm whether they have influenza and to identify their strain.
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.
25 paź 2024 · Public health risk assessment for human infection with avian influenza A(H5) viruses Whenever avian influenza viruses are circulating in poultry, there is a risk for sporadic infection and small clusters of human cases due to exposure to infected poultry or contaminated environments.
18 kwi 2024 · The ongoing global spread of “bird flu” infections to mammals including humans is a significant public health concern, senior UN medics said on Thursday as they announced new measures to tackle...
