H5N1

A two-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh died of H5N1 while undergoing treatment at AIIMS Mangalagiri. Officials suspect she may have contracted the virus after consuming raw chicken. No outbreak has been detected, but authorities urge caution.

Starting January this year, the country's first case of avian flu was seen in Chhindwara. The situation started to get worse as we entered February because a mutation was seen in this virus, affecting  pet cats.

H5N1 bird flu mutated to spread among mammals, causing mass deaths of elephant seals in South America. This raises concerns about the virus's potential to jump to humans, highlighting the need for vigilant monitoring and research.

The world is going through its worst outbreak of bird flu. The highly infectious H5N1 strain of the disease is responsible for the deaths