China reports first Human case of H10N3 bird flu| Media Tech|

 H10N3 BIRD FLU:

                                             

• A 41 year old in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first Human case of H10N3 bird flu , Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday.
• But, there is no Indication that H10N3 can spread easily in Humans.
• This man lives in the city of Zhenjiang, was taken to hospital on April 28 and diagnosed with H10N3 on May 28, there was no any other detail that how the man was affected.
• His condition is now stable and he is already discharged.
• No other cases of H10N3 have been reported globally, it added.

H10N3 is low pathogenic, which means it causes relatively less severe disease in poultry and is unlikely to cause a large-scale outbreak, the NHC added.

The World Health Organization (WHO), in a reply to Reuters in geneva said: " The source of the Patient's exposure to the H10N3 virus is not known at this time, and no other cases were found in emergency surveillance among the local population. At this time, there is no indication of human-to-human transmission.

The strain is not a common virus said Filip Claes, regional laboratory coordinator of the food and Agriculture Organization's Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases at the regional office for Asia and the Pacific.

Analysing the genetic data of the virus will be necessary to determine whether it resembles older viruses, Claes said.

There have been no significant numbers of human infections with bird flu since the H7N9 strain killed around 300 people during 2016-2017