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Avian flu: WHO wants global network and warns of "epidemic potential"
From 2023 to the beginning of this month, the World Health Organization said it had registered 463 deaths related to the virus in question, in 23 countries.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday of the importance of creating global networks to contain the H5N1 virus, which causes bird flu, and which has been raising alarms.
According to epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove, although the bird surveillance network is already highly developed, "what we really need is strong surveillance in different animal species".
According to the WHO's head of epidemic prevention, quoted by the France-Presse (AFP) agency, surveillance should be extended to milk and dairy products to ensure that "people are protected".
The official explained in Geneva, Switzerland, that pasteurization, which involves heating milk to kill germs, is very important. Although there is no evidence of this flu being transmitted between humans, experts fear that mutations could cause problems.
"Every opportunity this virus has to continue to circulate, to continue to mix with animal species, has the potential to cause an epidemic and an outbreak and to become a virus that has pandemic potential", added Maria Van Kerkhove.
From 2023 to the beginning of this month, the WHO said it registered 463 deaths related to the virus in question, in 23 countries.
The recent detection of bird flu outbreaks in cattle and goats in the United States, where a first case of cow-to-human transmission was identified, has raised concerns in the medical community about possible mutations of the virus, which, according to the WHO, has epidemic and pandemic potential.
Last week, the UN agency recommended the consumption of pasteurized milk after the discovery of high concentrations of the H5N1 virus in milk from cows in the United States.
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