Monday 05/May/2025 – 02:55 PM
The Global Network of Viruses, an international alliance that includes prominent human and animal virus scientists and extends to more than 80 excellence centers and subsidiaries in more than 40 countries, has published a detailed analysis on influenza outbreak Birds H5N1 is ongoing in North America, according to Science.
Bird flu is a danger to humans
The GVN World Disease Prevention Network stressed the necessity of taking immediate and coordinated global measures, and urges governments to enhance diseases of diseases, apply biological security protocols, and prepare in a proactive manner for the possibility of the transmission of the virus between humans.
Dr. Stein AH said. Vermond, chief medical official of the GVN global flu network, and the Dean of the University of South Florida University, the United States of America, understood the status quo of the H5N1 virus injuries is very important to prevention and effective response.
The spread of bird flu
He added: The ability of the virus to infect both animals and humans, in addition to modern genetic changes, stresses the importance of pre -emptive monitoring and rapid response procedures.
The H5N1 virus outbreak has so far implemented nearly a thousand flocks of dairy cows, and led to more than 70 human injuries, including the first confirmed death in the United States, and the virus pose a major threat to the poultry sector in the United States, especially in areas with dense agricultural operations and unequivocal preventive measures.
Since 2022, this virus has spread in all fifty American states and Canada, which led to the execution or death of more than 168 million birds, and although the transmission of the virus from one person to another is not documented, and experts warn that genetic mutations or reinstallation, when the merger of various influenza strains may increase, may increase the risk of transmission between humans.
