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World Health Organisation issue update on H5N8 bird flu after human-to-human spread – 7NEWS.com.au
Russia has registered the first case of a strain of H5N8 bird flu virus being passed to humans from birds, the WHO says.
The risk of human-to-human spread of the H5N8 strain of bird flu appears low after it was identified for the first time worldwide in farm workers in Russia, the World Health Organisation says.
A separate bird flu strain, H1N1, that spread rapidly worldwide among humans led the WHO to declare an influenza pandemic in 2009-2010.
The outbreak turned out to be mild among humans although deadly among poultry.
Russia registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named influenza A(H5N8) being…
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