Russia said on Saturday 20 Feb 2021 that its scientists had detected the world's first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization.
In televised remarks, the head of Russia's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said scientists at the Vektor laboratory had isolated the strain's genetic material from seven workers at a poultry farm in southern Russia, where an outbreak was recorded among the birds in December 2020.
The workers did not suffer any serious health consequences, she added. They are believed to have caught the virus from poultry on the farm.
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