Chinese officials said Saturday that a “severe” strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been reported in Hunan, China, and according to Business Insider, the severe strain of H5N1 has appeared in A farm, located in Shaoyang District, Hunan Province.
He continued, according to Sky News: “Of the 7,850 chickens present on the farm, 4,500 died of bird flu. “H5N1”, The Chinese government said it had “executed” 17,828 chickens as a result of the outbreak“.
The bird flu virus appeared in 2003, and caused the death of about 400 people, after it spread in Asia, Africa, North America and parts of Europe. Most people who showed symptoms of this virus had contact with sick birds..
This development comes at a time when China is witnessing a great tragedy due to the Corona virus, which, up to now, has claimed the lives of 259 people, and official Chinese data indicated that the number of confirmed cases of corona rose to 11 thousand and 791 cases.
In another context, the American network (ABC News) reported that the number of people infected with the “emerging corona virus” in the United States increased to 8, after discovering a new case in the state of “Massachusetts”.
The state’s Ministry of Public Health – according to the network – indicated that the new patient was a young man in his twenties, who had spontaneously submitted to medical examinations upon his recent return from Wuhan, China, to the Corona Virus Center.
Anthony Fossey, director of the American National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced that infection rates for the “emerging corona virus” are generally low in the United States..
It is expected that all Americans who have visited China over the past 14 days will be subjected to intensive medical examinations upon their return to the United States, and that they will also be isolated for 14 days as a precautionary measure..
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