Bird flu clings to man, the rare case found in England

The U.K. Health Safety Agency reported that the infected person has contracted the virus from constant contact with a number of infected birds kept in his domestic environment.

The infected citizen, according to the reports, is in good health and is currently in the property. Transmiting bird flu to humans is very rare but can result in deadly. Also, human transmission of this flu is rare.

U n K The HSA also announced that all the individual's close personal contacts, including those who visited the premises, have been tracked and there is no evidence that infection has spread to someone else.

Officials say the danger to the widespread public from bird flu continues to be very low. However, humans should not touch sick or dead birds, they added. Bird flu is a virus that spreads among bird species with the current species that circulates among birds in the United Kingdom called H5N1.