AKURAT.CO, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) has just announced the discovery of the first cases of infection with the H10N3 avian influenza virus in humans. As reported by Reuters to CGTN, the NHC confirmed the case of transmission of H10N3 in humans on Tuesday (1/5) local time.
The NHC said the case was detected in a 41-year-old man from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. It was also explained that the patient got the virus from poultry. Currently, the patient is said to be in a stable condition and has met the standards for discharge from the treatment facility.
According to the NHC, previously, there were no reported cases of H10N3 infection in humans in the world. However, local health authorities have confirmed that the case was a sporadic transmission of the virus from birds to humans, and the risk of large-scale spread is very low.
Previously, Russia had also reported the first case of transmission of H5N8 bird flu to humans. At that time, Russia immediately alerted the WHO to its findings even though there had been no detection of spread between humans.
Moreover, at that time, Moscow admitted that there were at least seven cases of transmission of H5N8 to humans. It also said the infection hit workers at a poultry factory in southern Russia.
“It is not passed from person to person. But only time will tell how quickly future mutations will allow this virus to overcome its barrier,” Russia’s head of health, Anna Popova, said in February.
Meanwhile, at the end of March, it was Britain’s turn to report cases of the H5N8 outbreak. However, as reported by Metro UK, the transmission only occurs between birds, and spread at a broiler farm in the northern town of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.
In response to the findings, the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) immediately implemented preventive measures. These include the culling of all infected animals to the protection and restriction of movement of poultry around the farm site. []
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