18 June 2024 Punjab Khabarnama : A four-year-old child from West Bengal was diagnosed with bird flu in late January this year, was admitted to a hospital’s intensive care unit for treatment twice for acute respiratory distress and was discharged finally in May, according to the World Health Organisation.
This is the second human case of H9N2 strain of bird flu reported from India — the first having been reported in 2019.
