China’s Guangdong Reports Human Case of H5N6 Bird Flu

Chickens are seen in a livestock market before the market asked to stop trading in prevention of bird flu transmission, in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, on Feb. 22, 2017. (Stringer/Reuters)

BEIJING—The health authority in southern China’s Guangdong province said on Wednesday that a single case of a human being infected with the H5N6 strain of bird flu has been reported in the city of Dongguan.

The infected patient, a 53-year-old male, is being treated in hospital, the Health Commission of Guangdong Province said in a statement, adding that experts considered the risk of transmission to be low at this stage.