Foreign news agencies reported from the city of Geneva. Switzerland on April 12 that the World Health Organization. (WHO) issued a statement on the death toll from the avian influenza virus. The world’s first H3N8 strain is a 56-year-old woman from Guangdong Province. located in the south of China
However, patients with congenital disease are cancer. Admitted to hospital in February last year with pneumonia. And died about a month later, in March, while the results of a detailed examination of all close contacts It was found that no one was infected.
back last year China’s health authorities confirmed The discovery of at least 2 people infected with the H3N8 avian influenza virus, both of whom were eventually cured. The WHO assumed that Cases and deaths from the H3N8 strain of avian influenza in China are most likely contracted through direct contact with infected poultry.
The WHO said Avian influenza virus strain H3N8 There is no connection with the situation of the spread of the H5N1 avian influenza virus. which continues to spread throughout the world continuously for the past 18 months Infections have also been found in several other mammals, including foxes, bears and cats.
However WHO and many other experts involved. Still insisting that Transmission of all strains of the avian influenza virus to humans. “Still low,” asking to avoid contact with poultry. and infected poultry carcasses along with requesting to eat poultry meat and poultry products such as eggs, which must be cooked only.
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