China reports first human case of H10N3 bird flu

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BEIJING: A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with the H10N3 strain of ...

01 Jun 2021 05:28PMBEIJING: A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu, China's National Health Commission said on Tuesday .

The man was stable and ready to be discharged from hospital. Medical observation of his close contacts had not found any other cases. The strain is"not a very common virus", said Filip Claes, regional laboratory coordinator of the Food and Agriculture Organization's Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases at the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.Only around 160 isolates of the virus were reported in the 40 years to 2018, mostly in wild birds or waterfowl in Asia and some limited parts of North America, and none had been detected in chickens so far, he added.

 

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*Accidentally kills the entire human race*

China with the new update, goddamn.

Woeee

I hope they can get this under control quickly!

I?

They should change the name of China from People's Republic of China to Virus Republic of China virusrepublicofchina

The🐔fights back!

Me realising things will never go back to “normal” 🥲

Lmao here we go again

What the fuck enough la weeyy

All the bad things always from china.

Ah Sh*t here we go again

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