LONDON — Two poultry employees within the U.Okay. have examined constructive for hen flu, however that they had no signs and there’s no proof of transmission between folks, the Health Security Agency stated Tuesday.

The two are the primary people to check constructive for the virus within the U.Okay. for the reason that company introduced a case of a 79-year-old English man who was contaminated after permitting geese into his house.

The company stated bird-to-human transmission of avian flu had occurred within the U.Okay. solely a small variety of occasions previous to that January 2022 an infection.

The poultry employees who examined constructive for the H5 pressure had been believed to have been uncovered to sick birds whereas working on the identical farm, which was not recognized.

Poultry farms had been below order from November till mid-April to maintain all birds indoors after avian flu was found on dozens of farms. Since October 2021, the U.Okay. has confronted its worst outbreak of avian influenza, with a whole lot of instances confirmed and hundreds of thousands of birds culled.

The constructive checks had been detected via screening of poultry employees uncovered to contaminated birds. The two employees have since examined damaging.

Precautionary contact tracing was being finished, the company stated.

Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser on the company, stated the extent of danger to human well being from hen flu was very low within the normal inhabitants.

“Current evidence suggests that the avian influenza viruses we’re seeing circulating in birds around the world do not spread easily to people,” Hopkins stated. “Globally, there is no evidence of spread of this strain from person to person, but we know that viruses evolve all the time and we remain vigilant for any evidence of changing risk to the population.”

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