BREAKING: China Reports First Human Transmission Case Of H10N3 Novel Bird Flu 6.1.2021

Not again… mainland China has seen its first reported human transmission case of the novel bird flu, H10N3. Experts were hoping the avian scourge would remain limited to bird species, instead of making the jump to human hosts as it now has in at least one officially documented case.

As this is breaking news, more information may be added to this story as it becomes available.

It is too early to say what, if any, long term impact H10N3 viral transmissibility among humans could have — too early to say if this will in any way rival the COVID19 pandemic that the world is finally ridding itself of, to growing degree, at least.

Image depicting H10N3 novel bird flu, which has now jumped to a human at least once.

According to an initial report from Live Science:

A man in China caught the first case of H10N3 bird flu ever reported in a human, China's National Health Commission (NHC) announced Tuesday (June 1).

The H10N3 strain of avian influenza normally causes mild disease in birds, and until now, no cases of the viral infection had been reported in humans, according to a statement on the NHC website, as translated by Reuters. But on April 23, a 41-year-old man in the city of Zhenjiang developed a fever that progressed over the following days, and on April 28, he went to a local hospital for treatment.