Unfortunately it is true. The case fatality ratio or CFR for H5N1 has been in the 60% range since 2005. There were some recent cases in Indonesia where the Head of the Dept of Health said that it appeared the CFR was RISING, not going lower. There is speculation that the virus has mutated to become Tamiflu resistant, which is the reason for the higher death rate. I will locate some links and post them.

Additional proof that the death rate is seriously high is the controversy over two groups of flu scientists who studied what it would take to make H5N1 spread more easily between humans. They were stopped from publishing the results of their studies for fear that terrorists would replicate their findings to create bio-weapons. This censorship is unprecedented in scientific circles and has been the subject of many msm news articles over the last month!