Russia reports first case of human infection with H5N8 bird flu – Al Jazeera English

Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named AH5N8 being passed to humans from birds and has reported the case to the World Health Organization (WHO), the head of a health consumer watchdog said.
Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but only in poultry. Other strains H5N1, H7N9 and H9N2 have been known to spread to humans.
Russia reported the case to the WHO several days ago, just as…

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