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Russia reports world’s first case of human infection with H5N8 bird flu – Sydney Morning Herald
Russia has registered the first case of a strain of new bird flu virus being passed to humans from birds but says the outbreak has been controlled.
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 Organisation (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said.
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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