China H3N8 Bird Flu: Another virus has entered China. Here a woman has died due to H3N8 bird flu. Regarding this death, WHO said that this virus has caused the first human death in the world. But this strain is not spreading among people. The World Health Organization said in a statement that a 56-year-old woman died in Guangdong, South China.
WHO told that two more people are infected with this virus. The first two cases came last year. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Guangdong Province said that the woman was infected with the virus last month. But he did not tell anything about the woman's death. WHO told that the woman was suffering from some other disease.
Virus not confirmed in people in contact
However, the infection of this virus has not yet been confirmed in the people who came in contact with the woman. WHO told that the number of people infected with bird flu is common in China. Here this virus continues to spread in poultry and wild birds. The World Health Organization told that the woman who died had visited the wet market. She fell ill after coming from there.
Woman got infected after going to wet market
After this, when samples were collected from the wet market, the reports were found positive. However, there is no news of infection of the rest. WHO said that the spread of this virus in birds is common but it is not usually spread in humans. The World Health Organization said that usually this virus does not spread from humans to humans. Even in the world, the number of its infected is negligible.
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