{"id":62249,"date":"2025-04-05T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=62249"},"modified":"2025-04-05T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:35:05","slug":"mexico-reports-first-human-case-of-h5n1-bird-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2025\/04\/05\/mexico-reports-first-human-case-of-h5n1-bird-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico reports first human case of H5N1 bird flu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infection was confirmed on Tuesday in a three-year-old girl living in the northern state of Durango, who remains hospitalised in serious condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So far there is no evidence of sustained person-to-person transmission,&#8221; the health ministry said in a statement, adding that the World Health Organisation (WHO) considers the public health risks of the virus to the general population to be low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico has detected its first human case of H5N1 avian influenza, also known as bird flu, the health ministry said on Friday. The infection was confirmed on Tuesday in a three-year-old girl living in the northern state of Durango, who remains hospitalised in serious condition. &#8220;So far there is no evidence of sustained person-to-person transmission,&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":62250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62251,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62249\/revisions\/62251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}