WHO says it's still unclear how a man in eastern China contracted the first known human case of a rare strain of bird flu called H10N3.
"The source of the patient's exposure to the H10N3 virus is not known at this time, and no other cases were found in emergency surveillance among the local population," the WHO told ABC News in a statement Wednesday.
While health officials investigate how the man was infected, the WHO said the virus doesn't appear to be spreading between people and there is currently no indication of a widespread outbreak.The 41-year-old man, who lives in the city of Zhenjiang in China's Jiangsu province, northwest of Shanghai, was hospitalized in an intensive care unit on April 28 after developing a fever and other symptoms.
The patient is now in stable condition and is ready to be discharged, the commission said. So far, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission and no other cases have been detected among any of his close contacts, who have been under medical observation, according to the commission.A worker inspects chickens at a poultry farm April 27, 2007, in Beijing.
The commission noted that H10N3 is a low pathogenic strain of the virus found in poultry, meaning it causes relatively less severe disease, and the risk of large-scale transmission is low. No other human case of H10N3 has been previously reported globally, according to the commission."This represents the first ever report to WHO of human infection with H10N3," the organization told ABC News in a statement Wednesday.
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