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“Today I want to announce an important scientific discovery made by scientists from the Vektor Research Center in Rospotrebnadzor: the first case of human infection with the … bird virus (H5N8) has been confirmed in the laboratory,” Popova told Rossija 24 TV .
He added that the infection was detected in seven people who worked on a poultry farm in southern Russia, where an outbreak of bird flu was recorded last December.
According to A. Popova, the infection was mild and the risk “was minimized; this situation has not developed further. “People who get sick feel fine, the official added.
“The virus is capable of spreading from birds to humans, overcoming the interspecific barrier. But for now [kiek žinoma] this variant does not infect other people with the flu virus. “How quickly will they allow new mutations to overcome this barrier? Time will tell,” said A. Popova.
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