Topline Here’s the latest news about a global outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that started in 2020, and recently spread among cattle in U.S. states and marine mammals across the world, which has health officials closely monitoring it and experts concerned the virus could mutate and eventually spread to humans, where it has proven rare …
The WHO assesses the current risk to the general population posed by the virus as low. Geneva: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl tested positive for H5N1 bird flu and needed hospital intensive care treatment in Australia after travelling to India, the World Health Organization said on Friday. “This is the first confirmed human infection caused by avian …
In a First, H5N1 virus has been found in raw milk in US. Read on to know what warnings the global health body has issued. Written By Ankit Kumar | Updated : April 21, 2024 10:01 AM IST H5N1 Bird Flu Found in Raw Milk: Is Your Milk Safe? In a significant announcement on Saturday, …
The World Health Organization voiced alarm Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an “extraordinarily high” mortality rate. “This remains I think an enormous concern,” the UN health agency’s chief scientist Jeremy Farrar told reporters in Geneva. The current bird flu outbreak began in 2020 and …
The presence of the virus was confirmed on Feb. 24 in samples of dead skua seabirds. A deadly type of bird flu has been confirmed on the mainland of Antarctica for the first time, scientists said, a potential risk for the southern region’s huge penguin colonies. “This discovery demonstrates for the first time that the …