<story><title>China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu</title><url>https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/03/china-reports-human-case-of-h3n8-bird-flu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Had exposure to poultry before falling ill... so no confirmed human-to-human spread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wing-_-nuts</author><text>The problem is, I&amp;#x27;m not sure you can trust &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; news out of china to be the 100% unvarnished truth anymore.  Seems the only way you hear any bad news out of china is when it gets &amp;#x27;too big to hide&amp;#x27;.</text></comment>
<story><title>China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu</title><url>https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/03/china-reports-human-case-of-h3n8-bird-flu/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>Had exposure to poultry before falling ill... so no confirmed human-to-human spread.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bagels</author><text>Are there any variants that can spread from birds to humans but not from humans to humans? Definitely not an expert in this at all, but it seems like the virus wouldn&amp;#x27;t care where it was before it got in to someone&amp;#x27;s mucous membranes. I can certainly imagine some modes of transfer will be less likely because maybe this variant causes chickens to sneeze, but not people, greatly reducing transmissivity, but seems unlikely to me to be impossible.</text></comment>