Avian Influenza H5N1
A globally recurring highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak causing extensive poultry and wild-bird mortality, agricultural disruption, food-price pressure, and sporadic human infections. The supplied evidence documents tens of millions of animal losses and multibillion-dollar costs, but does not establish a supported total for human deaths, people affected, or displacement.
Severity score
30.6
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
8Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
32People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
34Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
48Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
62Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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