The World Health Organization said Wednesday a person in Mexico had died in the first confirmed human case globally of infection with the H5N2 variant of bird flu.
Mexican health authorities reported the confirmed case of human infection with the virus to the UN health body on May 23, after a 59-year-old was taken to hospital in Mexico City. The source of exposure to the virus was unknown, the WHO said, although cases of H5N2 have been reported in poultry in the country.
But it said establishing a link between the human case and the poultry infections was so far impossible, estimating the risk to people as “low”.
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