Russia reports world's first avian flu H5N8 human transmissi

Russia reports world's first avian flu H5N8 human transmission to WHO


Russia reports world’s first avian flu H5N8 human transmission to WHO
There are no signs yet of transmission between humans, says health watchdog
21 February 2021 - 20:40 Polina Devitt and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
Chickens await vaccination against bird flu in Stavropol, Russia. Picture: REUTERS/EDUARD KORNIYENKO
Moscow —  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 at the weekend.
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 to spread to humans.

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