The UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has confirmed the first human case of bird flu in England. A farm worker in the West Midlands contracted the highly contagious H5N1 strain after prolonged contact with infected birds. While the risk to the general public remains low, this case highlights the global spread of bird flu and prompts concerns about potential human-to-human transmission.
The UK Health and Security Agency confirmed yesterday that a human case of bird flu was found in England.
In November, H5N1 cases were spreading rapidly through poultry and dairy cows in the United States. Several cases had also been reported in people. Bird flu: the UK vs US According to Professor Ed Hutchinson, Senior Lecturer at MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research , “this is the UK experience of a global outbreak of H5N1 in wild birds, and its effects are different in other parts of the world.”
“This underscores the potential risks of H5N1 infections, but it is also worth nothing that the H5N1 viruses currently circulating in UK birds are from a different strain of the virus to the ones in North America.”
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