Doctors and health experts have expressed concern over the potential threat of bird flu H5N1.
He has also expressed concern. He says that this new disease can prove to be 100 times more dangerous than the Corona epidemic.
There is also a strong possibility that more than half of the people may die due to this flu. He has expressed fear that the infection level of the virus may become severe which could lead to a global pandemic.
Dr. Suresh Kuchipudi, a leading bird flu researcher in Pittsburgh, has warned that H5N1 has the potential to cause a pandemic.
This is because it has the ability to infect humans as well as many mammalian animals.
John Fulton, a pharmaceutical industry consultant and founder of Canada-based pharmaceutical company Bioniagra, also echoed these concerns.
He has also said that if H5N1 takes the form of an epidemic, it will be very serious. It could be more deadly than Covid-19. Fulton said it appears to be 100 times worse than COVID.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 52 out of every 100 patients infected with H5N1 bird flu since 2003 have died. Let us tell you that till now 887 cases have been reported, out of which a total of 462 deaths have occurred.
At the same time, the death rate of patients infected with Covid-19 is less than 0.1 percent. However, it was around 20 percent at the beginning of the pandemic.
What is H5N1?
According to a report in Live Science, H5N1 is a subtype of avian influenza A. This is a group of bird flu viruses.
It is considered highly pathogenic as it causes serious and often fatal disease in poultry. It mainly affects birds.
H5N1 can also infect wild birds and sometimes mammals, including humans. This disease can be fatal for humans and animals.
The H5N1 virus was first detected in birds in China in 1996. An outbreak occurred in Hong Kong a year later.