A “rare” human case of bird flu has been identified in England, the UK’s Health Safety Authority announced today. “Transmission of avian influenza virus from birds to humans is rare and has only occurred a few times in the UK,” the Health Safety Agency, UKHSA, said. The person, whose gender was not mentioned, became infected on a farm in central England, where he had “close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds”, the announcement underlines. The person’s health condition is considered “good” and he is under medical observation in an infectious diseases hospital unit. “The risk to the general public remains very low,” the agency added, assuring that human-to-human transmission of the virus has not been “proven.” Everyone who had contact with the infected person has been traced. “Those at highest risk of exposure are given antiviral treatment,” the UKHSA said. The agency added that the specific case comes from a different strain of the virus than the one that […]
Source: News Beast
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