It is a rare phenomenon.
An employee of a Spanish poultry farm contracted bird flu at the end of September;
the health ministry said on Monday.
The man remained asymptomatic until he tested negative, with no other known infections;
reports the Spanish media
El Pais
.
115 outbreaks detected in Spain
“On September 27, 2022, the National Center for Microbiology confirmed a case of avian influenza A (H5N1) in an asymptomatic man who previously tested negative”;
the ministry said in a statement.
The infected person is an employee of a poultry farm in Guadalajara where cases of the disease were detected among animals on September 17.
He was placed in solitary confinement at his home until he tested negative on September 28.
His only close contact was negative, according to the ministry's statement, which stresses that "bird-to-human transmission is considered a rare phenomenon and human-to-human transmission is extremely infrequent."
In Spain, "79 outbreaks were detected in wild birds and 36 in poultry farms", according to figures from the Ministry of Health.
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