Human-Animal Interface monthly risk assessment summary Cases of human infection with H5N1 will only be reported on Disease Outbreak News for events that are unusual or associated with potential increased risks. Over the past week the nations chief veterinary office has confirmed a further 59 outbreaks in poultry starting in the period April 9-19.
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Avian flu 2020. Since highly pathogenic avian influenza HPAI returned to Iran in December 2020 the number of confirmed outbreaks has reached 54. In January 2020 the subclade 2344h of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N6 virus infected migratory whooper swans and mute swans in Xinjiang western China. The term iatrogenocide is derived from the combination of words iatrogenesis meaning physician induced illness and genocide defined as the mass killing andor enslaving of people for economics politics andor ideology.
The enhanced biosecurity measures introduced as part of the Avian Influenza Prevention Zone AIPZ on 11 November 2020 will remain in place. All were linked to the H5N8 HPAI virus subtype and they included 17 outbreaks in non-commercial flocks. In Poland the number of new outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza HPAI shows no sign of easing.
In the short period from Dec. 14 of this year more than seven million birds were lost to H5N8 outbreaks in. The virus is lethal to chickens and ducks but has low pathogenicity in mice.
Henceforward WHO will publish information on human cases with H5N1 avian influenza infection on a monthly basis on the Influenza webpage. Avian influenza bird flu Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral disease. Flu viruses combine and mutate frequently in unpredictable ways.
It affects the respiratory digestive or nervous system of many species of birds. From 2011 to 2020 0 to 145 confirmed human cases of avian influenza AH5N1 were reported to WHO annually according to onset dateThe latest case was reported on November 6 2020. Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus AH5N5 in Taiwan China On 12 March 2021 one new outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza AH5N5.
