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“There is no prerequisite for creating new panic and alarm but there is absolutely a need for attention because whenever a new virus appears we have to try in every way not to spread it“. Maria Rita Gismondo, director of the Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Diagnostics of Bioemergencies at the Sacco Hospital in Milan, comments on this to theAdnkronos Health, the discovery, in Russia, for the first time in humans of the H5N8 avian influenza virus, isolated in 7 employees of a poultry farm in the south of the country.
Russia reported having alerted the World Health Organization (WHO): “It is absolutely correct practice – comments Gismondo – to alert WHO whenever there is an infectious event other than the norm. It is right that so be it there are continuous passages, especially from poultry, of respiratory viruses, and we hope, it will certainly be so, that the thing can remain isolated. I guess the infected people have been isolated, and it doesn’t seem to be a serious manifestation as they have few symptoms and are fine, “he concludes.
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