Human deaths from bird flu are rare.

This is why WHO and CDC hides the actual number of deaths.

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General Information

Information in quotes is an exact quote from the source to aid in finding the paragraph that contains the quote. Just search the page for the quoted text, or at least 3 consecutive words in the quoted text.

Some subtypes of bird flu are: H5N1, H5N2, H5N5, H5N8, H7N3, H7N7, H7N9, H9N2.

From https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/timeline/avian-timeline-2010s.htm we have:

From 2010 to 2019, there were 861 human cases of H5N1 virus infection, resulting in 455 deaths across 17 countries. Additionally, during the same period, 1,568 lab-confirmed H7N9 human cases occurred, with 612 deaths.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza we have:

1. “Between early 2013 and early 2017, 916 lab-confirmed human cases of H7N9 were reported to the World Health Organization.”

2. US outbreak 2022-2023: “Since early 2022, more than 58 million birds in 47 states have died either directly from a bird flu virus infection or been culled (killed) as a result of possible exposure to infected birds.”

3. “Although it is possible for humans to contract the avian influenza virus from birds, human-to-human transmission is much more difficult without prolonged contact.”

4. “People who do not regularly come into contact with birds are not at high risk for contracting avian influenza.”

5. More copies of this page at https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza

From https://www.woah.org/en/disease/avian-influenza/ (WHO Organization for Animal Health) we have:

1. low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) that typically causes little or no clinical signs; 

2. high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) that can cause severe clinical signs and possible high mortality rates.

3. The transmission of avian influenza from birds to humans is usually sporadic and happens in a specific context (it’s rare). People who are in close and repeated contact with infected birds or heavily contaminated environments are at risk for acquiring avian influenza.  

From this WHO page on bird flu: 1997 there were 1500 human infection cases. They say there were "many" human deaths. The lack of a number is suspicious from an organization whose mandate is to keep track of numbers. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(avian-and-other-zoonotic)

From a 2005 study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095018/:

1. “The mortality rate from epidemics in Thailand in 2004 was as high as 66%.” (Note the careful us of the phrase “as high as” which intends to spread FUD, Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. Also notice the lack of use of who died. The death rate of birds was “as high as” 66%.)

2. “To date, there has been little evidence to suggest that AI (avian influenza) can spread among humans.” (See other sources where nearly all human cases are for people who work with birds daily, like in farms.)

3. “In 2003, the H7N7 subtype of AI was found in the Netherlands. This subtype caused 89 cases, but only one death;”

4. “Some cases also showed signs of conjunctivitis” (red eyes or red conjunctiva)

5. “The countries most affected were Vietnam, which reported 12 deaths out of 22 human cases (15), and Thailand, which reported eight deaths out of 12 cases (66% mortality rate)” (Now here’s a mortality rate, surprising enough. Notice there were only 22 cases and 66% of those died. This is why we need to know the number who died, and percent of infected who died, to put it into perspective.)

From a 2006 article about the 2006 avian flu outbreak https://www.livescience.com/659-human-death-toll-bird-flu-tops-100.html we have:

1. “The number of humans confirmed killed by the bird flu strain called H5N1 topped 100 today, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The organization reported five deaths in Azerbaijan. The most deaths, 42, have occurred in Vietnam followed by 22 in Indonesia. [Table]”

2. “Most of the human cases have involved people who've directly handled infected birds.”

From 2013 study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001451/ we have:

1. “In March 2013, in Eastern China, there was an outbreak of the novel H7N9 influenza virus, which although less pathogenic in avian species, resulted in 131 confirmed cases and 36 deaths in humans over a two-month span.” (27.4% mortality rate in humans.)

2. “To date, the number of H5N1 WHO-confirmed human cases amounts to 628 with 374 deaths from 15 countries.” (60% mortality out of a small number of cases.)

3. “Although the mortality rate in H7N9 infection (20%) is lower than that attributed to H5N1 virus (approximately 60%), H7N9 virus spreads faster than H5N1.”

From 2024 article https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/risk-bird-flu-spreading-humans-enormous-concern-who we have:

“So far, there is no evidence that H5N1 is spreading [heavily] between humans. From 2003 to 2024, 889 cases and 463 deaths caused by H5N1 have been reported worldwide from 23 countries, according to the WHO, putting the case fatality rate at 52%.”

Summary

By reading several sources I noticed they tried to say the 1918 Spanish Flu was caused by Avian Flu, but there is no empirical evidence for this. Expect more of this narrative in the future.

Also look for a lack of clear mortality rate to spread FUD. The news might say how many 100s of people died, or just say “many people died”, instead of 0.01% of the infected died. We really want to know which percent of the infected actually die from confirmed bird flu.

Watch for media quoting only the worst cases, not all cases. Leaving out important comparisons is a clear sign of a narrative. So is leaving out source links.

Expect poultry and egg prices to rise as animals are culled. And you won’t see any Vegans protesting mass murder of birds either.

If you have any links that show human deaths for any year in the past 10 years please post them as comments. Thank you for working together on this!