The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Organization for Animal Health warned on Monday that a new bird flu strain has been detected in Europe, UN spokesman Staphane Dujarric told reporters here.
The strain of bird flu found at a British farm in north England has been identified as H5N8, the same as the one recently identified in the Netherlands and Germany, according to the environment department.
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Vietnam has reported 67 cases of H5N1 bird flu in 21 provinces and cities, said the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Tuesday.
A 73-year-old woman, who died of respiratory failure on Dec. 6, was later confirmed to have been carrying the H10N8 virus by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a statement issued by the emergency response office of the provincial health department.
Two more people were confirmed infected with the H7N9 bird flu in Shanghai.By Saturday, China confirmed 18 H7N9 cases, killing six people.
The World Health Organization says there is no evidence that a type of bird flu that killed two Chinese men can be transmitted between people.
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