New Delhi: India has reported the first case of human death due to bird flu, influenza virus strains that mainly affect birds.
A 11-year-old boy, acknowledged AIIMS on July 2, confirmed to die from bird flu on Tuesday.
Contact Tracing to identify people who might be close to the boy being done.
The source told Ti that Haryana Resident was treated at AIIM with high fever and cough on 2.
“We think he has Covid-19,” said a hospital source.
“But when the test proves negative, further investigation stipulates that the boy suffers from infection caused by influenza viruses from the origin of birds or birds.” India has experienced several Avian influenza outbreaks in the last 15 years, mainly affecting poultry.
However, there are no cases of human deaths known for this disease.
Not surprisingly, public health specialists are feared in development.
Documents, family members in Isolatoriwan said the national center of the country’s leading disease control to control and mitigate pandemic – has been defeated to search for anyone’s contacts that might relate to the died boy.
Doctors, nurses, and health workers involved in the child’s care have been advised to isolate themselves and report symptoms such as sore throat, sneeze and cold.
Efforts are also made to confirm the influenza virus strain.
“There are many strains of viruses and while some can cause mild symptoms, others turn off,” said aIims doctor.
“NCDC tries to ensure the influenza virus strain that causes death.” The doctor added that bird flu rarely occurs in humans but if it affects someone, the risk of death is very high.
“Studies show the death rate of bird flu in humans as high as 60%,” he said.
Bird flu can spread to humans through dirt, saliva and infected bird secretions.
Therefore, it is recommended to avoid contaminated surfaces.
“The risk of spreading bird flu to humans is very rare, but we must take precautions.
The people involved in handling poultry must clean and disinfect the suspected and protective teeth such as gloves,” doctor’s advice.
Public health experts add that people must be alert about birds that are dying in their area.
“Do not explore near the bird carcass and immediately report the deaths to the authorities,” instructing an expert.
According to the Center for Control and Prevention of Disease, US, the Bird Flu Virus can infect people if there are quite a lot of them into the eyes, nose or mouth or inhaled.
“This might occur when the virus is in the air (in droplets or maybe dust) and inhaled or when people touch something that has a virus and then touches their mouth, eyes or nose,” CDC said, adding most of the bird flu infection in it – People are produced from contacts without condoms with infected birds or contaminated surfaces.
Bird flu disease in people, CDC said, can range from mild to severe.
Signs and symptoms include fever, coughing, sore throat, colds or nasal congestion, muscle or body pain, fatigue, eye pain, eye redness (or conjunctivitis) and breathing difficulties.
Like seasonal flu, some high-risk people are sick due to bird flu, including pregnant women, those who have a weakened immune system and 65-year-old people and above.
More than 700 human infections with the Asian Avian Influenza A (H5N1) virus that has been very pathogenous has been reported to whom from 15 countries in Asia, Africa, Pacific, Europe and the east near November 2003.
Indonesia, Vietnam and Egypt have reported the highest number of cases HPAI-Asia H5N1 to date, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.