The World Health Organization has raised concerns about the spread of the H5N1 bird flu variant, which has an 'extraordinarily high' mortality rate in humans.
The World Health Organization has voiced alarm 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.
In a worrying development, US authorities earlier this month said a person in Texas was recovering from bird flu after being exposed to dairy cattle. It was only the second case of a human testing positive for bird flu in the country and came after the virus sickened herds that were apparently exposed to wild birds in Texas, Kansas and other states. It also appears to have been the first human infection with the influenza A virus strain through contact with an infected mammal, WHO said.
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