A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3, Beijing's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday. Many different strains of bird flu are present in China and some sporadically infect people, usually those working with poultry. The man, a resident of the city of Zhenjiang, was hospitalized on April 28 and diagnosed with H10N3 on May 28, the health commission said. No other cases of human infection with H10N3 have been reported globally, it added. There have been no significant numbers of human infections with bird flu since the H7N9 strain killed around 300 people during 2016-17.

Source: CBC News June 01, 2021 19:07 UTC