Russia reports world s first case of human infection with H5N8 bird flu Reuters 2/20/2021 By Polina Devitt and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber © Reuters/Eduard Korniyenko FILE PHOTO: Chickens await vaccination against bird flu at the settlement Peredovoi near Stavropol
By Polina Devitt and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday.
Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but so far only in poultry. Other strains - H5N1, H7N9 and H9N2 - have been known https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(avian-and-other-zoonotic) to spread to humans.
Russia registers world s first case of human infection from new H5N8 bird flu
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