China has detected the first case of H10N3 bird flu and …

Chinese health authorities on Tuesday announced the detection of the world’s first case of H10N3 avian influenza in humans.

In a statement, the National Health Commission (NHC) assures that Until now, human contagion of this virus had never been detected, that it is an “accidental” transmission and that the risk of large-scale spread is “very low”.

The state agency has classified H10N3 as low pathogenic in birds, with unlikely to cause death or serious illness.

According to the NHC report, the first case is a 41 year old man who entered Zhenjiang Hospital with a fever on April 28 and a month later was diagnosed with the H10N3 virus.

The Commission ensures that the patient’s condition has improved and they are already near the landfill. Likewise, the health authorities have traced the close contacts of the 41-year-old man and claim to have found no “abnormalities”.

Experts – who point out that this is an isolated case – point out that the H10N3 virus does not have the ability to effectively infect humans.

In any event, the Commission asked citizens avoid daily contact with dead birds, that they try not to approach the living either, to ensure food hygiene and to go immediately to a doctor in case of symptoms such as fever or respiratory problems.

In China, the last bird flu epidemic took place in late 2016 and 2017, with the H7N9 virus. Since 2013, H7N9 has infected 1,668 people and killed 616, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.