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June 2, 2021

BEIJING (AFP) – China reported the world’s first human infection of the H10N3 bird flu strain yesterday but said the risk of it spreading widely among people was low.

A 41-year-old man was admitted to hospital with fever symptoms in the eastern city of Zhenjiang on April 28 and was diagnosed with H10N3 a month later, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) said in an online statement.

“The risk of large-scale spread is extremely low,” the NHC said, adding that the man was in a stable condition and his close contacts had reported no “abnormalities.”

It described H10N3 as low pathogenic – less likely to cause death or severe illness – in birds.

The NHC said there had been no human cases of H10N3 previously reported in the world.

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