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Polina Devitt<\/a>, Gabrielle T\u00e9trault-Farber<\/a> – February 20, 2021<\/p>\n

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months but so far only in poultry. Other strains – H5N1, H7N9 and H9N2 – have been known here<\/a>) to spread to humans.<\/p>\n

Russia reported the case of human infection to the WHO \u201cseveral days ago, just as we became absolutely certain of our results,\u201d Popova said on Rossiya 24 state TV. There was no sign yet of transmission between humans, she added.<\/p>\n

Seven workers at a poultry plant in Russia\u2019s south had been infected with the H5N8 strain in an outbreak at the plant in December, Popova said, adding that the individuals involved felt fine now. \u201cThis situation did not develop further,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In an email WHO\u2019s European arm said it had been notified by Russia about a case of human infection with H5N8 and acknowledged this would if confirmed be the first time the strain had infected people.<\/p>\n

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