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Deadliest doesn't fit as well as Most Lethal does. Deadliest refers to most cases of death. Lethality measures how likely you are to die is you get it
H5N1 is also a bit more complicated because quiet a few people have gotten it in the US but it presented as conjunctivitis. Milk from infected cows would splash in their eyes and infect them. The virus had no way to get to the respiratory system, though, so it wasn't a threat to anyone
https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2024/06/04/why-bird-flu-is-infecting-peoples-eyes/