“However, it is important that we remain vigilant,” said Dr Rajesh Karyakarte, Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, B J Government Medical College, Pune.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late on Friday afternoon that it received reports of the first two United States human swine flu infections for 2023.
A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic-;pdm09-;shows that the virus has passed from humans to swine about 370 times since 2009, and subsequent circulation in swine has resulted in the evolution of pdm09 variants that then jumped from swine to humans.
More than two dozen cats have been infected with bird flu across a wide swath of Poland, but no people appear to have been sickened, the World Health Organization says.