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This is a list of the deadliest animals to humans worldwide, measured by the number of humans killed per year. Different lists have varying criteria and definitions, so lists from different sources disagree and can be contentious. This article contains a compilation of lists from several reliable sources.
H5N1 influenza virus is a type of influenza A virus which mostly infects birds. H5N1 flu is a concern because its global spread may constitute a pandemic threat. The yardstick for human mortality from H5N1 is the case-fatality rate (CFR); the ratio of the number of confirmed human deaths resulting from infection of H5N1 to the number of those confirmed cases of infection with the virus.
Since 2003, 954 confirmed cases of human H5N1 have been reported to the World Health Organization, and about half of those people have died. The case fatality rate is approximately 52%, per the CDC .
Up to 140 million birds are believed to have died or been killed because of the outbreak. In April 2005 there begins an unprecedented die-off of over 6,000 migratory birds at Qinghai Lake in central China over three months. This strain of H5N1 is the same strain as is spread west by migratory birds over at least the next ten months.
H5N1 is a type of influenza virus that causes highly infectious and severe respiratory disease in birds. Outbreaks of the H5N1 avian influenza virus in wild birds and poultry have been ongoing in ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says handling infected birds is unlikely to lead to illness in people. However, there have been 67 human cases of bird flu since 2022 ...
A tigress who had killed 13 people in Goia was killed on 28 May 1979, but as of 1982, the third tiger at Sarada was still at large [17] and 90 people had been killed since the 1978 attack. [18] The population demanded action from authorities. The locals wanted the man-eater shot or poisoned. The killings continued, each one making headlines.
The public is encouraged to report any high concentrations of dead birds they may find as the Illinois Department of Natural Resources suspect avian influenza has killed at least 300 waterbirds ...