{"id":47995,"date":"2021-02-21T03:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=164991"},"modified":"2021-02-21T03:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T03:13:40","slug":"russia-reports-first-case-of-bird-flu-strain-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/21\/russia-reports-first-case-of-bird-flu-strain-in-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Reports First Case Of Bird Flu Strain In Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/79E3417C-43A0-4439-A92A-92E03F0D5499_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>Russia has reported the first case of a bird flu strain, H5N8, being passed from birds to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said seven workers at a poultry farm in southern Russia had been infected following an outbreak in December.<\/p>\n<p>They are believed to have caught the virus from poultry on the farm.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Popova, the head of Russia&#8217;s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on February 20 that authorities had alerted the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n<p>Popova said all seven people infected by H5N8 were \u201cnow feeling better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that there was no sign of transmission between humans.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO confirmed that it had been notified by Russia about the infections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in discussion with national authorities to gather more information and assess the public health impact of this event,&#8221; a spokesperson said. &#8220;If confirmed, this would be the first time H5N8 infects people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">Based on reporting by AFP and Reuters<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/21\/russia-reports-first-case-of-bird-flu-strain-in-humans-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has reported the first case of a bird flu strain, H5N8, being passed from birds to humans. Officials said seven workers at a poultry farm in southern\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47996,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47995\/revisions\/47996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}