WHO warns of high mortality rate in humans from bird flu outbreak

Over the year, the WHO records 463 deaths from 889 human cases across 23 countries, putting the case fatality rate at 52 percent.

So far, there is no evidence that the influenza A virus is spreading between humans. / Photo: AFP Archive

The current bird flu outbreak began in 2020 and has led to the deaths of tens of millions of poultry, with wild birds also infected as well as land and marine mammals. 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.

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