Please note there is new information almost daily. For the most current and accurate information, visit http://www.pandemicflu.gov, and look under the heading "Monitoring Outbreaks". The USGS site is very helpful in tracking current wildlife outbreaks and news stories. The WHO site gives the most current and accurate lab confirmed human case and human death totals.
Current human death rate from the H5N1 strain is 60.4% (308 cases, 186 deaths). Indonesia reports the newest confirmed case and subsequent human death from H5N1. This latest case is a 5 year old girl from the Central Java Province. Initial reports indicate that the girl had been exposed to dead poultry. Of the 97 reported cases in Indonesia, 77 have been fatal. China also reports and additional case in a 19 year old soldier who developed pneumonia-like symptoms on May 9 and was hospitalized on May 14. Initial investigation cannot locate ill poultry as a source. Close contacts to the case have been monitored and continue to remain healthy.
The United Kingdom has recently announced that Influenza A/H7N2 has been confirmed in 4 individuals who were exposed to ill poultry in Wales. According to the WHO, European office:
"Influenza A/H7N2 virus, identified by laboratory tests performed so far on human and animal samples, is a low pathogenic strain of avian influenza. It is different to the highly pathogenic influenza A/H5N1 virus strain currently circulating in south east Asia and sporadically in the European Region. Influenza A/H7N2 virus infection in humans has generally been associated with a mild disease."
For more information on this virus, please visit the article: Human cases of avian influenza A/H7N2 in the United Kingdom
WHO Laboratory Confirmed H5N1 Human Cases As of 5/30/07
| Country | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Total | ||||||
| cases | deaths | cases | deaths | cases | deaths | cases | deaths | cases | deaths | cases | deaths | |
| Azerbaijan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 |
| Cambodia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| China | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 15 |
| Djibouti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 34 | 14 |
| Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 13 | 55 | 45 | 22 | 19 | 97 | 77 |
| Iraq | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Lao People's Democratic Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Thailand | 0 | 0 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 17 |
| Turkey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 4 |
| Viet Nam | 3 | 3 | 29 | 20 | 61 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 42 |
| Total | 4 | 4 | 46 | 32 | 98 | 43 | 115 | 79 | 45 | 28 | 308 | 186 |
Total number of cases includes number of deaths.
WHO reports only laboratory-confirmed cases.