Bird Flu 2024 Newsround

Bird Flu 2024 Newsround. The virus has infected birds in more than 80 countries (as of december 2023). The mortality rate of bird flu in humans, based on the roughly 900 confirmed people infected with the virus between 2003 and 2024, is about 50%, according to yale medicine.

New outbreaks of bird flu in wild and domestic birds were reported in europe and around the world between september and december 2024. The cdc’s confirmation on wednesday of the first case of severe bird flu in the united states was just the latest development in the ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic.