‘Two poultry workers in England have tested positive for bird flu, although there are no signs of human-to-human transmission, the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.
Both people were known to have recently worked on an infected poultry farm and have since tested negative.
Neither worker experienced symptoms of avian influenza, with both cases found during screening.
The risk to the general population remains very low, the UKHSA added.
The UKHSA is running a programme of testing workers who have come into contact with infected birds, but is also running asymptomatic testing.
The first person who tested positive is thought to have inhaled the virus.
The second person is thought to be a more complicated case and it is unclear whether they have suffered a genuine infection or whether they too inhaled the virus while at work.’
Quick, lock down the world
MOAR lateral flow tests
and MOAR vaccines
h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal