WHO: Human cases of bird flu a major concern

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 19, 2024 12:02 am

GENEVA, Switzerland: The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Thursday over the growing spread of the H5N1 avian influenza strain to new species, including humans, who face an 'extraordinarily high' mortality rate.

'This remains, I think, an enormous concern,' the United Nations health agency's chief scientist Jeremy Farrar told reporters in the western Swiss city of Geneva.

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