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The world's first case of human infection with avian influenza detected in Russia
? Sputnik / Evgeny Epanchintsev
Health
14:21 20.02.2021 (updated 14:32 20.02.2021)
The new avian influenza A (H5N8) virus can be transmitted from birds to humans, but not from person to person.
MINSK, 20 Feb - Sputnik. Avian influenza was detected in seven employees of a poultry farm located in southern Russia, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova.
"Scientists of the Vector Center have isolated genetic material of this type of avian influenza from seven employees of a poultry farm in the south of the Russian Federation, where an outbreak was registered among the poultry population in December 2020," Popova said on the Russia 24 TV channel.
According to her, all measures to protect people and animals were carried out in a short time, all seven people are doing well. “All people, all seven people I’m talking about today, feel good, their clinical course was very easy,” Popova added.
Popova stressed that the new causative agent of avian influenza A (H5N8) can be transmitted from birds to humans, since it has overcome the interspecific barrier, but this variant of the virus has not yet been transmitted from person to person.
At present, it is still impossible to say how quickly the bird flu mutation will allow transmission from person to person. Time will tell.
According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor, the genetic material of bird flu was isolated by the staff of the Vector Center, which will warn scientists, practitioners and people all over the world.
"To take the necessary measures in a timely manner and counter the new threat at a significantly different new high level of counteraction and prevention. We have time for this today," she added.
There is now time to prepare a vaccine against the new avian influenza A (H5N8), if it becomes pathogenic, Popova said.
The world's first case of human infection with avian influenza detected in Russia
? Sputnik / Evgeny Epanchintsev
Health
14:21 20.02.2021 (updated 14:32 20.02.2021)
The new avian influenza A (H5N8) virus can be transmitted from birds to humans, but not from person to person.
MINSK, 20 Feb - Sputnik. Avian influenza was detected in seven employees of a poultry farm located in southern Russia, said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova.
"Scientists of the Vector Center have isolated genetic material of this type of avian influenza from seven employees of a poultry farm in the south of the Russian Federation, where an outbreak was registered among the poultry population in December 2020," Popova said on the Russia 24 TV channel.
According to her, all measures to protect people and animals were carried out in a short time, all seven people are doing well. “All people, all seven people I’m talking about today, feel good, their clinical course was very easy,” Popova added.
Popova stressed that the new causative agent of avian influenza A (H5N8) can be transmitted from birds to humans, since it has overcome the interspecific barrier, but this variant of the virus has not yet been transmitted from person to person.
At present, it is still impossible to say how quickly the bird flu mutation will allow transmission from person to person. Time will tell.
According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor, the genetic material of bird flu was isolated by the staff of the Vector Center, which will warn scientists, practitioners and people all over the world.
"To take the necessary measures in a timely manner and counter the new threat at a significantly different new high level of counteraction and prevention. We have time for this today," she added.
There is now time to prepare a vaccine against the new avian influenza A (H5N8), if it becomes pathogenic, Popova said.
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