0BY HELENA SUTAN ON OCTOBER 19, 2021SCIENCE
CHINA has confirmed another person has tested positive for H5N6 bird flu, as the World Health Organization (WHO) calls for “urgent action” to be taken.
The Hong Kong Health Department has said it was notified that a 60-year-old woman from Changde, Hunan Province, had tested positive. According to the Hong Kong Health Department, the woman developed symptoms on October 3 and was admitted for treatment on October 13. The woman’s condition was described as “critical”.
Health officials in China have identified the patient as a farmer who had been exposed to dead poultry.
Since its discovery in 2014, only 49 people have been infected with this strain of the bird flu virus.
According to a report in BNO, more than a third of these cases have been reported in the last three months.
And more than half have been reported during the last year.
Other early symptoms may also include diarrhoea, stomach pain, vomiting, conjunctivitis and bleeding from the nose or gums.
The WHO warned earlier this month more surveillance is “urgently needed” to better understand the threat posed by the H5N6 virus.
To date, there have been no confirmed cases of the virus being transmitted among humans.
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The virus is transmitted through close contact with infected birds, that are dead or alive.
This can happen through direct contact with bird carcasses, touching bird droppings and bedding, as when preparing or killing poultry for cooking.
In a study published in September, researchers from China’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) a number of new mutations in the H5N6 strain of the virus.
The researchers warned: “The increasing genetic diversity and geographical distribution of H5N6 pose a serious threat to the poultry industry and human health.
“The increasing trend of human infection with avian influenza virus has become an important public health issue that cannot be ignored.”
Thankfully, the virus does not appear to have developed the ability for sustained transmission between humans.
Unlike the highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, the WHO believes the risk of human-to-human transmission is low.
Scientists at the European. “Brinkwire Summary News”.
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