WHO expresses ‘great concern’ over bird flu

Leading scientific doctor World Health Organization (WHO)doctor Jeremy Farrarwarning about ” serious problem” which means that bird flu can develop and begin to spread from person to person.

H5N1 is an influenza infection that primarily occurs in poultry and ducks. To date, no person-to-person transmission of the H5N1 virus has been reported.. The virus had “extremely high” mortality rate among several hundred people known to have been infected to date.

Due to the outbreak of the H5N1 virus among Dairy cows V USAThe head of WHO called on health authorities continue to closely monitor and investigate“because it can develop and be transmitted in different ways.”

“Do cow milking structures create aerosols? Is it the environment they live in? Is it a transport system that extends throughout the country? This is a big problem, and I think we need to make sure that if the H5N1 virus is transmitted from person to person, we are able respond immediately by providing fair access to vaccines, treatments and diagnostics,” pointed out.

The news comes as the WHO announced updated language to describe airborne pathogens in an attempt to increase international collaboration. in case of a new and expected pandemic.

As Dr Farrar explains, the initiative arose as a result of the Covid-19 emergency and the recognition that the lack of agreed upon terms between doctors and scientists to describe how the coronavirus is transmitted has made it difficult to overcome.

To counter this, WHO consulted with four major public health agencies in Africa, China, Europe And USA, before announcing agreement on a number of new agreed terms. These include “infectious respiratory particles” or “IRPs”, which should be used instead of “aerosols” and “droplets” to avoid confusion regarding the size of the particles in question.

In addition to new terminology, the initiative strengthens the international community’s commitment to combating “epidemics and pandemics.” increasingly complex and frequent”Dr Farrar told reporters in Geneva.

“This is a very important first step. But the next thing to do is to bring disciplines and experts together, (because) we use the same terminology, the same language, and now we need to do the science that will provide data on TB, Covid and other respiratory pathogens. so that we know how to control these infections better than we have done in the past,” he said.

Regarding the possible public health risk posed by HN51, WHO’s chief scientist warned that Vaccine development is not ‘where it should be’. “Regional and national offices and public health authorities around the world also lack the ability to diagnose H5N1,” he noted.