Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, head of consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said on Saturday.
Outbreaks of the H5N8 strain have been reported in Russia, Europe, China, the Middle East and North Africa in recent months, but so far only in poultry. Other strains — H5N1, H7N9 and H9N2 — have been known to spread to humans.
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4/5/13
Airline Industry: European Airlines Decline as Bird Flu Concerns Spread From Asia - by Robert Wall and Andrea Rothman
European aviation stocks declined, following a drop among Asian carriers, on concern an outbreak of the bird-flu virus in China will clip travel and hurt demand already unsettled by rising military tensions with North Korea.
“The airline weakness is down to bird flu and more general concerns over issues such North Korea,” James Hollins, a London-based analyst at Investec said today. “There is a fear these potential crises could curtail travel.”
European airlines followed a retreat among Chinese stocks after at least six people died from the new strain of bird flu that emerged in eastern China. Previous bird flu outbreaks and the occurrence of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, had emptied planes and caused industry-wide losses.
Read more: European Airlines Decline as Bird Flu Concerns Spread From Asia - Businessweek
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