H5N1 Cases on the rise

17

48

143

2005

2010

2015

WHO/GIP

Severity in Asia

100%
fatality

70%
fatality
Center for disease control and prevention, 2005

50 - 100 million
Death estimates of last bird-to-human pandemic 1918.

? million
Next pandemic

Studies have begun to characterize

the mutations in H5N1 that may be a
prerequisite for efficient human-tohuman transmission. Each new
influenza virus is monitored to check
for such mutations
PLOS medicine.

For reasons not fully understood,

most human cases and clusters of
probable human-to-human
transmission of H5N1 since January
2006 have occurred in Indonesia
PLOS medicine, see WHO, 2006.

$$$

200-300
million

0
million

Former Health Minister, Siti Fadilah:

!

The restriction attached to the WHOs virus sharing

rule, stipulating that virus genetic codes can only be
accessed by countries meeting certain security
requirements, in practice means countries who are
wealthy and Western. Revise protocol so data can
be accessed by all WHO member states.

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