The World Health Organization has recorded 355 humans deaths from H5N1 out of 602 cases, although some research has questioned this high mortality rate.
Officials from the World Health Organization have confirmed that this new strain transmits to humans more easily than previous bird flues.
Initial tests looking for "markers" on the surface of the bacterium showed it to be the O104 strain, which the World Health Organization said was rare, had been seen in humans before, but never in an outbreak.
The World Health Organization says that most avian flu viruses do not infect humans and the majority of H5N1 cases have been associated with contact with infected poultry.
Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome, over 50 billion vertebrates are consumed by humans every year, a number that does not account for fish or marine and fresh-water invertebrates, or for biomedical victims of experimentation, from dogs to hamsters to rats and mice.
Concerns resurfaced in May when the World Health Organization classified electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" after analyzing the body of scientific research.
The World Health Organization says there is no evidence yet that the virus is being transmitted between humans.
The World Health Organization this week said the subtype isn't thought to be transmitted between humans, unlike the more-common H5N1 strain.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says this strain appears to spread more easily from birds to humans.
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It closely resembles a coronavirus found in bats, but exactly how it jumped to humans isn't known, said Peter Daszak, president and disease ecologist at EcoHealth Alliance, an organization that researches the animal origins of emerging viruses.
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According to Reuters, the World Health Organization (WHO) originally issued an international alert in late September saying a virus previously unknown in humans had infected a Qatari man who had recently been in Saudi Arabia, where another man with the same virus had died.
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