Russian immunologist Nikolai Kryuchkov announced that the discovery of the new H3N8 bird flu virus in China may be the tip of a floating iceberg.
It is noteworthy that on Wednesday, April 27, China announced the first infection of a four-year-old child from Zhumadian City in central Henan Province, with the new H3N8 bird flu virus. It turned out that the child contracted the infection on April 5 after contact with poultry.
Kryuchkov said in a statement to the newspaper “Izvestia”, “This strain must be controlled, because its danger lies in the transmission of infection between species, and this means that it can be transmitted from animal to human, but this does not mean that it will transmit between humans quickly. In addition, the discovery of this The injury is like the tip of the iceberg floating, because it may not be the only injury and the other injuries haven’t been detected.”
According to him, avian and swine flu are very aggressive, and rapidly spread among humans. However, the infection detected is not unique, so it is too early to talk about the danger.
It should be noted that the H3N8 virus was detected in birds, dogs and horses, and its transmission from animals to humans had not previously been detected. But it may be the cause of the epidemic of 1889-1890, which killed about one million people. According to REGNUM
It became known that the authorities of Aomori Prefecture in northeastern Japan had ordered the extermination of about 110,000 chickens in a local poultry farm as a measure to combat bird flu.
Source: “Izvestia” newspaper
