Great -Britain was startled today by fresh bird flu fears after a human cause was detected in England.
Officials said that the non -created Brit, which is thought to come from the West Midlands, is supposed to have sustained it on a farm, where they had close contact with a large number of infected birds.
The bosses of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) race to contain the viruses that all contacts of the person who is 'good' and was admitted to a unit with a high consequence Infectious Disease (HCID).
They were only caught after the health body had carried out routine tests on people who had had close contact with infected birds.
Vogel-to-Men's transfer of Aviaire Influenza is rare and only took place in the UK a handful of times earlier.
Symptoms of the infection reflect those of regular flu and covid. It does not spread easily between people.
But experts recently warned that the virus could mutate to become more transferable to people.
The tribe that is supported by the infected Brit, H5N1, is the same that in 2023 led the biggest outbreak of bird flu ever.
A human case of bird flu has been detected in England – after warnings, the virus could mutate to become more transferable to people
Culling of infected birds started in Great Britain, while experts try to stop the spread of the virus
It struck more than 200 million domestic birds worldwide on top of countless wild birds, which spill in mammals such as Mink, foxes, raccoons and bears.
UKHSA officials, however, warned today that the risk for the wider public remains very low.
The transfer from person to human from bird flu is only very rarely and never documented in Europe or the UK.
Professor Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Adviser at UKHSA, said: 'The risk of bird flu for the general public remains very low despite this confirmed case.
'We have robust systems to detect cases early and take the necessary action, because we know that overflow infections can occur from birds to people.
'There is currently no proof of the transfer of this case.
“People are reminded of not touching sick or dead birds and it is important that they follow Defra advice on reporting suspected bird flu stores.”
The British Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss added: 'Although bird flu is very contagious in birds, this is a very rare event and is very specific to the circumstances in this building.
The tribe that is supported by the infected Brit, H5N1, is the same that the biggest outbreak in the world ever fueled in 2023. Shown above, an outbreak of bird flu in Queens Park, Heywood, Rochdale in 2023
So far, more than 60 confirmed human cases of H5N1 infection have been reported in 2024, after a widespread outbreak in bird and cattle farms in the United States
'We have quickly taken action to limit the spread of the disease on the site in question, all infected birds are agreed humanally and the cleaning and disinfection of the buildings will all be undertaken according to strict biosecure standards.
'This is a memory that strict biosafety is essential in keeping animals.
'We see a growing number of bird flu cases in birds on both commercial farms and in the back garden herds throughout the country.
“Implementing meticulous bio -safety measures will help protect the health and well -being of your birds against the threat of Aviaire Influenza and other diseases.”
In the meantime, Andrew Gwynne, Minister of Health and Prevention, also said: 'The safety of the public is of the utmost importance and we keep a close eye on this situation.
'The risk of wider or further transmission is very low, but the UK remains prepared and ready to respond to current and future health threats.
“We recently added the H5 vaccine, which protects against Aviaire Influenza, to our stock as part of our readiness plans.”
The human matter comes only a few months after a panel from the British government experts said that the persistent infections in American cattle had increased the risk of human being to 35 percent, compared to only five percent earlier.
Independent experts have also told MailOnline earlier that the threat of a new pandemic is fueled by bird flu, but 'cannot be excluded' as a possibility.
British scientists who are in charge of developing 'scenarios of early human transfer' of bird flu have warned that 5 percent of the infected people could die if the virus would leave in people (shown under Scenario three). According to another scenario, the scientists started that 1 percent of the infected person would be admitted to the hospital and 0.25 percent would die – comparable to how deadly Covid was in the fall 2021 (scenario one). The other saw a death rate of 2.5 percent (scenario two)
Alan Gosling (photo), a retired engineer in Devon who kept ducks at home, caught the virus at the beginning of 2022 after his pets were infected
This new case was detected after the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) had identified an outbreak of H5N1 in a swarm of birds, said UKHSA officials.
They then carried out routine monitoring on people who had had close contact with the infected birds.
The birds were contaminated with the TI.2 genotype, one of the viruses that are known to be circulating in Vogels this season in the UK.
This is different from tribes that circulate between mammals and birds in the US.
Civil servants have traced people who have been in contact with the confirmed case, with those with the highest risk of exposure that antiviral treatment offered, the UKHSA added.
Experts nowadays said, while 'human to human transfer is very unlikely' that the UK should not be complacent in his response.
Jonathan Ball, an expert in molecular virology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine said: 'Bird flu, as the name suggests that in wild birds is circulating wide, fortunately does not easily forget to people, and only really occurs in people who have done that For people who have done that, regular contact with wild birds or poultry.
'Even in the rare cases where people get infected, there is also human transmission very unlikely to human transfer.
The Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) is extensively for the whole of England in an attempt to control the transition in the number of cases of the disease
Even stricter measures means that all birds must be held indoors in York, North Yorkshire, Kingston on Hull, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Shropshire
“However, that does not mean that we can be complacent.
'There is always the risk that the virus can evolve and be better adjusted to spread among people.
“It is therefore important to be vigilant, to guarantee good wild birds and poultry supervision and when human cases occur to isolate the patient to remove the risk of further transfer.”
Since the beginning of 2024, there have been at least 23 confirmed cases of bird flu in England, which are most common in Eastern, where the strictest prevention measures are present.
On Saturday, a housing order that birds had to keep in housings, which had been in force in the east of Yorkshire, the city of Kingston on Hull, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk was expanded.
It is now also dealing with Shropshire, York and North Yorkshire.
A 3 km security zone is entered around each infected building and will also be subject to a housing order.
In America, where there has been a persistent national outbreak in poultry and cattle, there have been more than 60 human cases in recent months.
An analysis placed in a December by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found on its website that the virus that has been detected in the throat of one patient had genetic changes that can lead to 'increased virus binding' to specific 'cell receptors Found in the upper respiratory tract of people. '
These changes were not found in birds, also in the backyard poultry herd that was thought to have initially infected the Louisiana patient.
It is unlikely that people catch bird flu from eating poultry and game birds because it is sensitive to heat, and cooking the poultry well will kill the virus.
Usual symptoms in humans are high fever, a cough, sore throat, muscle pain and a general feeling of malaise.
And just like with normal flu, it can quickly develop into severe respiratory disease and pneumonia.
Human infections occur when the virus in the eyes, nose, mouth, mouth or is inhaled.
Although this is the first human case of H5N1 in the current outbreak, Britain has previously infected six other people.
One, Alan Gosling – a retired engineer in Devon who kept ducks at home – caught the virus at the beginning of 2022 after his pets were infected.
He later tested negative while he was in quarantine for almost three weeks.
