Image for representation. | Manan Vatsyanana / AFP Russia on Saturday said the country’s scientists have detected the first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of bird flu to humans, reported BBC. Russia’s health watchdog said the case had been reported to the World Health Organization. Officials said seven workers at a poultry plant in the south of the country had been infected following an outbreak there in December. “All seven people... are now feeling well,” said Anna Popova, head of Russia’s consumer health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor. She added that adequate measures had been quickly taken to stop the spread of infection.