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A person working on a farm has contracted the human version of avian flu.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual “had close and prolonged contact with a large number of infected birds”, but would not say where the farm was.
The person was “currently well and was admitted to a High Consequence Infectious Disease unit,” it said.
It also said the risk to the wider public “continues to be very low” and that bird-to-human transmission of this kind was rare.
UKHSA routinely swabs people who have been in close contact with infected birds and, after confirming the transmission, said there was no evidence that the person had passed it on to anyone else.
Nevertheless, it said it had traced everyone the person had been in contact with and offered them antiviral treatment.
Since 2021 there have only been seven cases of humans contracting bird flu, and there has never been an instance of bird flu being passed from human to human in Europe or the UK.
County in bird flu lockdown
The announcement came soon after the decision to place the whole of Shropshire into an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ), following an outbreak of bird flu at a farm in the county.
This means anyone who has birds in Shropshire must house their animals, from a single chicken in a back garden right up to large commercial flocks.
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