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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ibnanv" data-source="post: 25138609" data-attributes="member: 218596">H5N8: Saudi Arabia reports outbreak of HIGHLY pathogenic bird flu virus          An outbreak of a particularly contagious bird flu virus has been  reported in Saudi Arabia, the World Organization for Animal Health  (OIE) warns, as the world struggles to contain the spread of a deadly  China coronavirus. The outbreak took place in  the central Sudair region, located some 150 kilometers north of the  nation’s capital of Riyadh. The disease already killed more than 22,000  birds, the OIE said, citing the Saudi Agriculture Ministry. More than  385,000 birds were also slaughtered out of precaution. This is the first  such outbreak since July 2018.The H5N8 strain of the bird flu,  which was detected in Saudi Arabia, was previously considered not  particularly contagious for humans. Yet, it has been recently declared  to have become increasingly more pathogenic. Earlier on Tuesday, a similar alarming report about a bird flu  outbreak came from Vietnam, where another highly pathogenic virus strain  — H5N6 — led to the deaths of 2,200 birds in a village in the country’s  north. On February 1, China, which has already been gripped with a  novel coronavirus originated from the city of Wuhan, reported that an  outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus was detected in its central  Hunan province.While it hasn’t occupied the news spotlight  lately, H5N1 is said to be an even deadlier virus to those who contract  it. Nearly 60 percent of H5N1 patients die after contracting the  sickness, compared to two percent of Wuhan coronavirus (2019 nCoV)  patients thus far.</blockquote>

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