The two poultry workers are believed to have picked up the virus while working at a farm in England but did not experience any symptoms janemerrick23 reports
did not spread the virus to other people, an official investigation has found.
The UKHSA says the risk to human health remains at level 3, which means there is evidence of changes in the virus genome that could make infection in mammals more likely, but the risk to humans is low.The two poultry workers were the first cases in people in the UK for nearly 18 months. There have only been a total of 10 cases in people of the H5N1 strain since the outbreak began.
A total of 85 poultry workers have been tested for bird flu since March, with only the two cases detected. The second person showed results that were “compatible with infection” but they remained asymptomatic throughout, the UKHSA said. Twenty contacts were identified and 15 of these were tested, all of whom were negative. All remained asymptomatic.
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