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"A "highly pathogenic" strain of the #H5N1 bird flu has been reported in #China's Hunan province, Chinese officials said.

https://twitter.com/ThePollLady/status/1623629713280204800

The outbreak was reported on a farm in the city of Shaoyang in the Hunan province, according to #China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Of the 7,850 chickens on the farm where the outbreak occurred, 4,500 died of the #H5N1 avian flu.

The Chinese government said it culled 17,828 chickens as a result of the H5N1 outbreak. According to the World Health Organization, while H5N1 can be transmitted to humans, typically through contact with dead birds or a contaminated environment.
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The Executive Director General of the National Agricultural Health and Food Safety Service (SENASAG) of #Bolivia, Dr. Javier Ernesto Suárez Hurtado, informed that the health entity of the country activated the national animal health emergency system,

establishing all the containment measures to be able to control and eradicate this disease, after having confirmed the presence of #avianflu in a farm in the city of Sacaba, in Cochabamba.

"#Japan has culled close to 10 million birds in a record outbreak of avian influenza, as authorities struggle to tamp down the disease that has already devastated poultry flocks worldwide.

The agriculture ministry said on Monday that 9.98 million birds have been culled this season, surpassing a previous record in fiscal 2020. On Tuesday, it confirmed the disease at an egg farm in Miyazaki prefecture that housed about 100,000 hens.

On 9 January 2023, #WHO was notified of a human infection caused by an avian influenza A(H5) virus. The case, a nine-year-old girl, living in a rural area in the province of Bolívar, #Ecuador.
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She was in contact with backyard poultry, which was acquired a week before the onset of her symptoms. She is currently hospitalized, in isolation, and is being treated with antivirals.

In Nov. 2022 Avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country's deadliest outbreak in history, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed.

Correction -
First human death case -
China has reported a fatal H5N1 avian flu case in Sept 2022, its first since 2015, according to a notification from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
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and she was hospitalized 3 days later. She died on Oct 18.
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Correction of tweet 1 -
Complete story of chinese origin of H5N1 AVIAN FLU VIRUS which can infect humans also.

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