Health
‘Tip of the iceberg’: World’s first ‘human infection’ of bird flu strain reported – Yahoo News Australia
Seven workers at a poultry farm had been infected with the H5N8 strain of the avian flu.
Russia has reported the world’s first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans.
The World Health Organisation has been alerted as health teams look to react quickly in a bid to prevent mutations.
In televised remarks, the head of Russia’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said scientists at the Vektor laboratory had isolated the strain’s genetic material from seven workers at a poultry farm in southern Russia.
The farm was responsible for an outbreak…
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