Russia on Saturday announced that it has identified the first cases of H5N8 avian influenza in humans, according to multiple reports.
Anna Popova, the country’s public health chief, said in televised comments that seven cases were detected in workers at a poultry farm in southern Russia, Bloomberg News reported. Authorities have reported information on the cases to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Popova said that the workers had mild cases and were recovered. The poultry farm was the site of an outbreak among birds in December, Bloomberg noted.
“It is not transmitted from person to person. But only time will tell how soon future mutations will allow it to overcome this barrier,” she said, according to the news outlet. “The discovery of this strain now gives us all, the whole world, time to prepare for possible mutations and the possibility to react in a timely way and develop test systems and vaccines.”
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this kind of thing happens from time to time and is generally not cause for alarm.
in the United States (and most other civilized countries) as soon as any avian flu is detected, the entire population of birds on that farm are euthanized to prevent the virus from having the opportunity to mutate.
so Russia definitely gets an F- for their handling of this.
and if it turns out that they are lying about transmissibility, (like the Chinese did last year) then there should be some punitive measure, not just against Russia (and China) but also against the WHO for parroting talking points from dictatorships.
Are they done with the covid hoax that they need to start a new one?
yes!