H5N1 virus confirmed in a three -year -old girl from the northern state of Coahuil in Mexico on April 1.
A week later, dramatic news about the patient's death came.
Mexico. The first virus virus H5N1. It's a three -year -old
The Ministry of Health of Mexico has already been followed by 38 people who had contact with a deceased girl, but they all got Negative result for the presence of the virus.
Among them were Family members and medical staff.
The Mexican Health Secretary Eliud Aguirre said that no other cases of infection have been reported so far.
Bird flu is attacking again
Although only the first quarter of 2025 is behind us, Two deaths have already been reported in Cambodia, caused by H5N1 infection, including a child who slept and had fun near the cage, inhabited by 15 patients of birds. In the USA, one death was reportedwhich occurred in January.
World Health Organization (WHO) informs that virus infections in humans can cause a serious disease with high mortality. The cases detected so far apply to people who had contact with infected birds and other animals or with a contaminated environment.
“Virus does not move easily from person to person” – we read on the official WHO website. However, scientists express great fears that in the case of simultaneous infection and bird flu and seasonal flu, The H5N1 virus can mutate a strain, whose transmission from man to man will be facilitatedand this may result in the outbreak of another pandemic.
WHO calls for cooperation, the USA is leaving the structures
Last year, the UN authority, dealing with health care, warned that irregular supervision in various countries prevents him from managing the risk of H5N1 strain for people.
WHO called all countries to severity of monitoring and reporting infections in animals and people, as well as sharing genetic samples and sequences.
W United States The spread of bird flu caused anxiety due to cases of severe disease in humans and disturbing cases of infection in domestic cats and dairy cattle. The virus also had a significant impact on Crisis on the poultry market.
Since the office of the US President by the office by Donald Trump The country almost completely stopped communicating with WHO, as a result of the executive regulation signed by the American leader, ordering withdrawal from the organization.