Even as COVID-19 continues to rage across the globe, China on Tuesday confirmed the world’s first case of a human infected with H10N3 avian influenza, commonly known as Bird Flu.
Burdened with the flak received for being the country where the first case of COVID-19 was identified as well (in Wuhan), China’s tryst with viruses hasn’t gone down very well with netizens across the globe reeling with the subsequent lockdowns and restrictions imposed in wake of the second wave of the Coronavirus. While it was bats earlier, this time the virus said to have originated from poultry has triggered a sense of fear even though China has maintained that the case reported is ‘rare’ and that chances of large-scale spread are very bleak.
At a time when the world battles the most lethal pandemic ever known to humanity and is on its way back to normalcy with vaccines proving to be effective, the possibility of another animal-to-humans virus transmission has left Twitter pondering what lies in store next. As China reported the first case of a human being infected with bird flu, Twitter erupted with despondent reactions as plenty sought a ‘break’ from the virus while many sighed ‘not again’.
News Source : India Today
