The virus was detected in a 59-year-old patient who had been hospitalized in Mexico City. The man died one week after developing a fever, shortness of breath and diarrhea.
A man in Mexico died after contracting a strain of bird flu that hasn’t been confirmed in humans before, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The current risk posed by the H5N2 virus to the general public is low, according to the WHO, which said no further cases were reported after an investigation. Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist with the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, said that H5N2 poses a low risk to public health because it hasn’t shown an ability to be transmitted between humans. To that end, it’s concerning that the patient isn’t known to have had exposure to animals which are the most likely source of disease, she added.“It’s so crazy that we don’t know where this is coming from,” she said.
In the US, the H5N1 outbreak in cattle continues to expand its geographic reach. On Wednesday, Iowa announced it had identified infected cows, bringing the total number of states that have detected bird flu in herds to 10. So far this year, three US-based farmworkers have tested positive for bird flu — one in Texas and two in Michigan. They had symptoms of eye irritation and one had a cough. There have been no fatal human cases associated with the US H5N1 outbreak.
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