Another disease has emerged in China even as the world battles the raging Covid19 that has seen many mutations and variants since it hit pandemic levels.
The Asian country recorded its first human infection of H10N3 bird flu strain, the latest infectious disease to hit humanity.
The development was confirmed in a report on Tuesday morning after the index case, a 41-year-old man was admitted into hospital with symptoms of fever in the Eastern city of Zhenjiang.
Reports say that the index case was confirmed on the 28th of April following which he was diagnosed with H10N3 after 1 month.
The National Health Commission of China (NHC) said in a statement however, that the “risk of large-scale spread is extremely low.”
The NHC stated that the patient is in a stable condition and his close contacts have reported no abnormalities. It also noted that the H10N3 is low pathogenic-less likely to cause death or severe illness.
The Health Commission also said that the country had recorded no human cases of H10N3. It added that several strains of bird flu have been found among animals in China but mass outbreaks in humans are rare.
The last human epidermic of bird flu in China was said to have occurred in late 2016 to 2017.
However, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reports that H7N9 has infected 1,668 people and claimed 616 lives since 2013.
Meanwhile, following recent avian flu outbreaks in Africa and Eurasia, the he’d of China’s Centre for disease control and Prevention has recommended stricter surveillance in poultry farms, wild birds and markets.
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