The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Thursday at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an"extraordinarily high" mortality rate.
Cows and goats joined the list last month – a surprising development for experts because they were not thought susceptible to this type of influenza."The great concern of course is that in ... infecting ducks and chickens and then increasingly mammals, that virus now evolves and develops the ability to infect humans and then critically the ability to go from human to human."So far, there is no evidence that the influenza A virus is spreading between humans.
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.
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