Jharkhand: Bird flue detected in 9-month-old baby
India | August 18, 2023 23:21 ISTThe baby, a resident of Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district, was admitted to RIMS with symptoms of fever, cough and respiratory problems.
The baby, a resident of Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district, was admitted to RIMS with symptoms of fever, cough and respiratory problems.
Notably, the virus was first traced in North American waterfowl in 2002. It is known to infect horses, dogs and seals.
A new type of bird flu called H5N1 is spreading among wild birds and other animals like minks, badgers, pigs, and bears. People are wondering if it will also start affecting humans.
WHO said that bird flu is a zoonotic virus, so at present, the risk of its spread is high in animals. However, one needs to take it seriously as the early strains of coronavirus were also zoonotic and we all saw how it turned into a pandemic.
Kerala: As initial tests indicated the outbreak of bird flu, the samples were sent to the high-security lab in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) for accurate diagnosis which confirmed avian influenza, a government statement said.
The CDC said it has tracked the health of more than 2,500 people who have been exposed to H5N1 virus-infected birds but that this was the only confirmed case to date.
A four-year-old boy was found to have been infected with the virus after developing several symptoms including fever.
Divisional Forest Officer, Supaul, Sunil Kumar Sharan said that more than four dozen birds, including crows, ducks, chickens, and other birds were found dead in mysterious circumstances in Chapkahi village under Sadar police station on Mar 31.
The outbreak of bird flu in Vasai has raised concerns among poultry traders. Last week large numbers of chicken died in different parts of the city.
More than 415 chicken died suddenly in three days in Arnala, Bhandar Ali, Agashi and Wagholi areas of Virar. The samples of dead chicken have been sent to the Pune Medical College.
Authorities confirmed that the reports have come from the Bhopal-based lab of the National Institute of High-Security Animal Diseases where the samples have tested positive for H5N1 influenza virus.
The District Collector held an emergency meeting with the forest officers and directed them to take necessary steps to deal with it
H5N6 bird flu is known to cause severe illness in humans of all ages and has killed nearly half of those infected, according to WHO.
In an official statement, PETA India said the lives of not only chickens, but of children can also be lost due to zoonotic diseases, while reiterating that vegetarian diets must be fully embraced.
A 12-year-old boy from Haryana, who was infected with the H5N1 virus, recently died at AIIMS, Delhi.
India on Tuesday reported its first bird flu death in the country for this year after a 12-year-old boy died at Delhi's All India Insitute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), news agency ANI reported.
The new cases were detected in the small poultry farm on June 24 in a village near the provincial capital Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, Mahmoud Farhan al-Shammari, head of the veterinary hospital in Diyala said
The 41-year-old man in Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, was hospitalized April 28 and is in stable condition, the National Health Commission said on its website.
H10N3 is a low pathogenic or relatively less severe strain of the virus in poultry and the risk of it spreading on a large scale is very low. There are many different strains of avian influenza in China and some sporadically infect people, generally those working with poultr
Samples from a poultry farm in Ludhiana tested positive for bird flu, prompting the district authorities to form a committee for a culling exercise and containment operations.
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