Sam Jarvis with Johnson County Public Health said the good news: there’s so far been no human-to-human transmission of the virus known as H5N1. But they’re continuing to monitor the situation closely.
But, fatalities are not uncommon with H5N1 infections overall. According to data collected by the WHO, there have been 954 documented cases between 2003 and 2024. Of those, 464 were fatal, leading to ...