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The Scary History of the H5N1 Bird Flu
H5N1 has infected 859 people according to the most recent estimates by the World Health Organization. Of those 859 cases, 453 of them died. That's a 52% mortality rate, 52%. It isn't much lower levels than what we'd normally see with a human flu virus.