The World Health Organization (WHO) says increased surveillance is urgently required to better understand what’s behind a recent spike in human cases of H5N6 bird flu in mainland China.
Only 48 people have been infected with H5N6 bird flu since the first confirmed case in 2014, but a third of those were reported in mainland China during the past 3 months alone. Half of all cases were reported during the past 12 months.
“Wider geographical surveillance in the China affected areas and nearby areas is urgently required to better understand the risk and the recent increase of spill over to humans,” a WHO spokesperson told BNO News.
H5N6 bird flu is known to cause severe illness in humans of all ages and has killed more than half of those infected. While there are no confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission, a 61-year-old woman who tested positive in July denied having contact with live poultry.
Read more at BNO News.
{Matzav.com}
and you expect the Chinese to come forward with the truth?….WISHFUL THINKING!
Oh no. Will there be a vaccine shot I can take? My God is the vaccines. I put my trust in vaccines.
Are they done with Covid that they need quaxing for a new virus turned disease?