Global H5N1 Outbreak Spreads Across Continents Impacting Wildlife Livestock and Humans with Unprecedented Severity
Published: December 3, 2025
Duration: 4:22
H5N1 GLOBAL SCAN: AVIAN FLU WORLDWIDE
Welcome to H5N1 Global Scan, a Quiet Please production. I'm your host, and today we're examining how highly pathogenic avian influenza is reshaping our world across continents and borders.
Let's start with the numbers. Since 2003, more than 23 countries have reported over 890 sporadic human infections with H5N1 to the World Health Organization. But the situation has intensified dramatically since 2020. The current outbreak, driven by the H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus, represents an unprecedented global crisis affecting wildlife, livestock, and human populations simultaneously.
In the Americas, 19 countries...
Welcome to H5N1 Global Scan, a Quiet Please production. I'm your host, and today we're examining how highly pathogenic avian influenza is reshaping our world across continents and borders.
Let's start with the numbers. Since 2003, more than 23 countries have reported over 890 sporadic human infections with H5N1 to the World Health Organization. But the situation has intensified dramatically since 2020. The current outbreak, driven by the H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus, represents an unprecedented global crisis affecting wildlife, livestock, and human populations simultaneously.
In the Americas, 19 countries...