The Chinese government announced Tuesday that a man in Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, had become the first person known to have been infected with the H10N3 strain of bird flu. In a statement, China’s National Health Commission emphasized that there was no evidence that the strain had the ability to spread among humans, adding […]
Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus being passed to humans from birds. They had reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO). Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East, and North Africa in recent months but only in poultry. […]