There is no detailed description of why the man could be exposed to the bird virus.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEIJING — A 41-year-old man in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province has been confirmed to be the first human to be infected. bird flu H10N3. This was reported by China’s National Health Commission (NHC), Tuesday.
“The man, a resident of Zhenjiang City, was hospitalized on April 28 after developing a fever and several other symptoms,” the NHC said in a statement.
He was diagnosed with bird flu virus H10N3 on May 28. However, the Commission did not provide details about how the man was infected with the virus. The patient’s condition is stable and ready to be discharged from the hospital.
According to medical observations, no one close to the man had a similar case. H10N3 is a low–or relatively mild–pathogenic virus in poultry and the risk of its spread on a large scale is very low.
“This type of virus is not a very common virus,” said Filip Claes, regional laboratory coordinator of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Transboundary Animal Disease Emergency Center for the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
In the 40 years to 2018, only about 160 strains of the virus have been reported to emerge — mostly in wild birds or waterfowl in Asia as well as certain regions of North America. So far nothing has been detected in chickens, he added. An analysis of the genetic data of the virus will be needed to determine whether the virus resembles an older strain or a new mix of different viruses, Claes said.
In China, many different strains of bird flu are found — some of which sometimes infect humans, especially in people who work on poultry farms. Since the H7N9 variant killed about 300 people during 2016-2017, the number of cases of bird flu infection in humans is no longer significant. According to the NHC, globally there are no other reported cases of H10N3 infection in humans.
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