The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed its huge concern on Thursday regarding the increasing spread of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza to new species, including humans. “This is a huge concern,” said Jeremy Farrar, the chief scientist of the United Nations health agency, during a press briefing in Geneva. The fear is that the H5N1 virus, which has shown an extraordinarily high mortality rate in people infected through their contact with infected animals, might adapt to become capable of human-to-human transmission. Currently, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of H5N1. Between 2003 and April 1, 2024, the WHO … Continue reading WHO Chief Raises Alarm as H5N1 Avian Influenza Spreads to Humans