WHO Reports 32 Cases of H5N1 in Humans This Year

31 dis 2012

GLOBAL - According to WHO, there have 

been 32 cases of H5N1 flu in humans so

 far this year, 20 of whom have died.

According to the latest figures

, published by WHO on 17 December, most

 of the victims were in Egypt (11

 cases; five deaths) but there were

 also nine cases in Indonesia, four in 


Viet Nam, three in Bangladesh and 

Cambodia and two in China.

Last year, 2011, there were 62 cases,

 of whom 34 died.

Since the emergence of H5N1 influenza

 in 2003, 610 people are reported to

 have become infected, 360 of whom have

 died.