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The first person in the world died of H3N8 bird flu: is Russia facing a new epidemic?

Date: March 29, 2024 Time: 19:39:23

No infection was found in the immediate social circle of women.

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According to foreign media, citing the World Health Organization, a 56-year-old woman from Guangdong province died in China from the H3N8 bird flu. And this is the first known human death from this variant of bird flu.

The WHO official press release on the situation of the spread of H3N8 avian influenza in China, sent to media representatives by email, states that on March 27, 2023, the National Health Commission of China informed the WHO of one confirmed case of human infection. with the avian influenza A (H3N8) virus. And this was the third recorded case of human infection with this virus. The above two people were also infected in China, but survived.

A 56-year-old woman from Guangdong Province, who developed the disease on February 22, 2023, passed away on March 16, 2023. She was hospitalized with severe pneumonia on March 3, 2023. The woman could not be saved, he had many concomitant diseases.

The WHO says an epidemiological investigation and close contact tracing have been carried out. No infection was found in the immediate social circle of women. It was also possible to establish that there was a “presence of wild birds” around the woman’s house and she also came into contact with poultry, possible sources of the virus. They took samples around the woman’s house, and in the live bird market, where the lady went to buy food. The samples tested positive for influenza A (H3), so to speak, the common branch of the virus, which includes H3N8.

“Based on available information, it does not appear that this virus has the ability to spread easily from person to person, and therefore the risk of its spread to humans nationally, regionally and internationally is considered low,” the statement said. WHO in a statement. .

“The most important thing is that this virus is transmitted very weakly from person to person,” virologist Anatoly Altshtein told KP.RU. “You need a very high dose. Close contact of people who live together. These types of viruses are dangerous for the infected person, but most likely they cannot be the cause of an epidemic that spreads like wildfire. I think it will be as it has already happened: individual outbreaks of bird flu. But if an epidemic develops, it will be very scary.

– The WHO reports that H3N8 occurs in interspecies transmission in dogs and horses, can this somehow contribute to the fact that the strain develops new populations?

– With a large dose, you can infect with any strain, whether it will give a serious disease or an abortive latent infection is another question. But I wouldn’t say there’s any reason to believe that this variant of bird flu will also spread to dogs and horses and start spreading between them.

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Puck Henry
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