Currently widespread avian flu virus found in dead person in China

Germany’s Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) near Greifswald said the group 2.3.4.4b H5N1 virus had been found in the Chinese at the request of the German news agency DPA. This group is currently rampant in many other parts of the world, from Europe to South America.

The Chinese woman was 38 years old and lived in the south of the country. She had been in contact with infected poultry and contracted severe pneumonia. The woman was treated in hospital and died. She would have been sick.

Last week in Cambodia, an 11-year-old girl died of bird flu. In this case, a different virus group (2.3.2.1c) was detected. These have been circulating in Cambodia for a few years now. According to official information, it was the first death related to the disease in the Southeast Asian country since 2014.

Fears of greater human-to-human transmission were initially not confirmed in the case. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the girl’s father had also tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus this weekend, but not 11 of the girl’s other contacts, some of whom had flu symptoms. The father showed no signs of illness. “From what is known to date, the virus does not readily infect humans and human-to-human transmission appears to be uncommon,” it said.

The largest ever documented outbreak of bird flu is currently raging and spreading across several continents. Bird flu, also known as bird flu, is an infectious disease that mainly affects waterfowl and other birds. Experts fear that the virus is increasingly adapting to mammals and can therefore become more dangerous for humans. Infections have also been detected in mammals such as sea lions, raccoons, foxes, bears and martens in recent months. Experts are particularly concerned about an outbreak of bird flu at a Spanish mink farm.

(SDA)

Source: Blick