Bird flu: in cows -transmitted through a type of cattle feed called “poultry litter”

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Experts fear that H5N1, which was only first detected in cows a few weeks ago, may have been transmitted through a type of cattle feed called “poultry litter” – a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants.

[April 6 2024 only two cases in the U.S., and neither were fatal ]

In 2022, a prison inmate in a work program caught it while killing infected birds at a poultry farm in Montrose County, Colorado. His only symptom was fatigue, and he recovered.

This week, Texas health officials announced that a person who had been in contact with cows had been diagnosed with bird flu. Their only reported symptom was eye redness.

[April 4 2024

In other words, over-easy and sunny side up eggs with runny yolk are not considered “properly cooked,” said Wade Syers, a food safety specialist with Michigan State University Extension.

In typical scenarios without bird flu outbreaks to consider, the USDA says that “everyone is advised against eating raw or undercooked egg yolks, whites or products containing them” —

https://www.aol.com/safe-eat-runny-eggs-amid-113033752.html

[April 1 2024 Second-ever bird flu human case in the US. ]

A dairy worker in Texas has tested positive for avian flu, representing only the second-ever human case in the US. Across the globe, a total of 887 humans have been infected with avian flu since 2003, according to the World Health Organisation, with 462 resulting in death.

[March 16 2024 Republic of Congo first cases of mpox ]

BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) — The Republic of Congo has recorded its first cases of mpox in several regions, the health ministry said, an indication of how the disease may be spreading across Africa since sexual transmission was first confirmed on the continent last year.

Mpox is a virus that originates in wild animals and occasionally jumps to people, who can spread it to others. The virus was previously known as monkeypox, because it was first seen in research monkeys.

The World Health Organization said in November it had confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in neighboring Congo for the first time. African scientists warned this could make the disease difficult to contain.

[January 11 2024 Elephant and fur seals killed by bird flu near South Georgia Island ]

An avian flu panzootic — a pandemic among animals — has struck some 320 bird and mammal species, including elephant seals.

[January 11 2024 ]

A virology team has confirmed the first bird flu infections in elephant and fur seals in the sub-Antarctic region, on South Georgia island – a UK overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean, as the highly contagious H5N1 virus continues to spread around the world.

[November 22 2023 Polar bear killed by bird flu near Utqiagvik, Alaska ]

A polar bear has been killed by bird flu as the highly contagious H5N1 virus spreads into the most remote parts of the planet.

The death was confirmed in December by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. “This is the first polar bear case reported, for anywhere,” Dr Bob Gerlach, Alaska’s state veterinarian, told the Alaska Beacon.

It was found near Utqiagvik [Barrow], one of the northernmost communities in Alaska, two years after this latest strain was detected in North America. Gerlach said it was likely the bear was scavenging on the carcasses of infected birds.

[November 22 2023 Really, really big: pigs ]

In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that’s spreading out of control.

[July 13 2023 Bird Flu to infect humans? ]

WHO and UN warn of increasing risk to humans amid ‘alarming rise’ in cases in mammals
UN experts say outbreaks in 26 species across five continents could help H5N1 virus evolve into a bug that moves more easily between people’

An “alarming rise” in outbreaks of bird flu in animals is fuelling the risk of it evolving into a virus that could transmit between humans, the World Health Organisation and United Nations have warned.

The highly infectious H5N1 virus cannot currently pass between people and there have only been eight cases in humans worldwide since December 2021, which were all from direct contact with poultry and were not transmitted to others.

But the increasing frequency of cases in mammals means the virus could adapt to move more easily between people, a joint statement from WHO, the UN’s food and agriculture organisation (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said.

Dr Gregorio Torres, head of the science department at WOAH, said: “There is a recent paradigm change in the ecology and epidemiology of avian influenza which has heightened global concern as the disease spread to new geographical regions and caused unusual wild bird die-offs, and alarming rise in mammalian cases.”

“Avian influenza viruses normally spread among birds, but the increasing number of H5N1 avian influenza detections among mammals – which are biologically closer to humans than birds are – raises concern that the virus might adapt to infect humans more easily.

“In addition, some mammals may act as mixing vessels for influenza viruses, leading to the emergence of new viruses that could be more harmful to animals and humans.”

The virus has led to the deaths of tens of millions of birds, including farmed poultry, through disease or culling.

Since 2022, there have been deadly outbreaks among mammals in 10 countries across three continents, including outbreaks in farmed mink in Spain, seals in the United States, and sea lions in Peru and Chile, with at least 26 species known to have been affected. H5N1 viruses have also been detected in domestic animals such as cats and dogs in several countries, including an outbreak of bird flu in cats in Poland last month.

Bird flu has been found so far in ferrets, otters, badgers, skunk, leopards, tigers, mountain lions, European polecats, lynx, bobcat, domestic cat, red fox, coyote, racoon, racoon dog, South American bush dog, American black bear, brown bear, grizzly bear, Kodiak bear, domestic pig (serology only), grey seal, harbour seal, fur seal, sea lion, porpoise, bottlenose dolphin, short-beaked common dolphin, white sided dolphin, dogs, Japanese raccoon dogs, Beech marten, Caspian seals, Asiatic black bear, Chilean dolphin, and porpoises.

[April 12 2023 Marburg/Ebola and Bird Flu:human H3N8 death ]

For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.

China has reported the first fatal case of H3N8 bird flu in humans after registering two other non-fatal infections with the disease last year,

[February 23 2023 H5N1 death ]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said.

[November 28 2022 50.54m deaths ]

This year’s total ofBird 50.54m birds – including chickens and turkeys – has surpassed a previous high set in 2015.

Flocks in over 40 states have been affected, more than double the number of states in the previous outbreak.

[May 18 2022 Boston: monkeypox ]

A Massachusetts man who recently traveled out of the country has tested positive for the rare monkeypox virus infection and is now being hospitalized in Boston, health officials confirmed on Wednesday as an outbreak emerges in Europe.

This is the first monkeypox infection identified in the U.S. this year, and it comes as the CDC tracks clusters that have been reported in several countries that don’t normally report monkeypox, including the U.K., Portugal, and Spain.

[May 16 2022 Bird Flu: vaccinating flocks ]

France, the Netherlands, and other hard-hit countries have restarted research into a solution long considered taboo: vaccinating flocks.

[April 30 2022 Colorado convict culling poultry gets H5N1 ]

An unnamed prisoner contracted the infection during a work release assignment at a farm in Montrose county where workers were euthanising an infected flock,

The Montrose County man, described as younger than 40, has reported only one symptom — fatigue — and was taking the antiviral drug Tamiflu, the department said.

A positive test administered this week by the state health department, which said it has been monitoring people exposed to poultry and wild birds, was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency said. The man working on a commercial farm was suspected to be infected when he was directly exposed to the H5N1 flu, the state’s health department said in a release.

[April 26 2022 China: first human infection with H3N8 bird flu

BEIJING (REUTERS) – China has recorded the first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, the country’s health authority said on April 26 2022, but said the risk of it spreading among people was low.

A four-year-old boy from central Henan province was found to have been infected with the variant after developing a fever and other symptoms on April 5. No close contacts were infected with the virus, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement.

The child had been in contact with chickens and crows raised at his home, it added

[February 25 2022 New Brunswick: not the lobster, continued ]

authorities in the Canadian province of New Brunswick have concluded that no such illness exists, a finding that has prompted skepticism and disbelief as families search for answers. A previous report [below] released by the province found no environmental exposures that linked the patients together, leading families to suspect the province was prepared to rule out the existence of a cluster.

[February 24 2022 Bird flu in New Castle County Delaware ]

Bird flu has been discovered at a factory farm with 1.2 million chickens in Delaware, the United States government said. All the animals at the farm will be killed and their bodies destroyed.

The outbreak brings the total number of farm birds killed in the region to about 1.65 million over the past two weeks.

US officials said that all the chickens at the infected farm in New Castle County.

[February 23 2022 Knox County Maine ]

Federal authorities found a second case of avian influenza among birds in Maine, the state’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry announced Wednesday.

The state said federal authorities found the second case of the highly pathogenic influenza in a small flock of birds in Knox County.

The non-poultry birds were found three kilometers away from where the first case was detected among a different group Sunday.

[February 20 2022 Bird flu depopulation in Suffolk County ]

WASHINGTON, February 19, 2022 – The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a non-commercial backyard flock (non-poultry) in Suffolk County, New York.

Samples from the flock were tested at the Cornell University Animal Health Diagnostic Center, part of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, and confirmed at the APHIS National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa.

APHIS is working closely with state animal health officials in New York on a joint incident response. State officials quarantined the affected premises, and birds on the properties will be depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease.

[February 18 2022 Malawi: Pakistani polio case ]

Malawi’s health authorities have declared a polio outbreak after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe, the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

The WHO said in a statement that laboratory analysis showed the strain detected in Malawi was linked to one that has been circulating in Pakistan, where it is still endemic.

“As an imported case from Pakistan, this detection does not affect the African region’s wild poliovirus-free certification status,” the WHO said.

[February 15 2022 240,000 Tyson Foods broiler chickens depopulated for bird flu – China limits ]

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, inspectors found cases of the H5N1 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a flock of commercial broiler chickens in Fulton County, Kentucky. State officials quarantined the affected premises, and birds on the properties will be depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease. Depopulation is complete in Virginia.
Around 240,000 chickens at a farm in Kentucky owned by Tyson have tested positive for a highly lethal form of the disease.
Following the announcement, China and South Korea have limited poultry purchases from Indiana due to the outbreak. China has now blocked imports from Kentucky too.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/stakeholder-info/sa_by_date/sa-2022/hpai-ky-va-flocks

[February 11 2022 Bedfordshire UK – Lassa Fever death ]

A Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust spokesperson said: “We confirm the sad death of a patient at our trust, who had confirmed Lassa fever. We send our deepest condolences to their family at this difficult time. see below

[February 10 2022 Indiana: 29,000 birds ‘depopulated’ after bird flu deaths ]

According to the Indiana State Board of Animal Health (BOAH), a veterinarian delivered samples from the flock in Dubois County to the Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University for testing after approximately one hundred birds died on Monday evening. The lab identified the H5N1 avian flu as the culprit.

So far, 29,000 birds will have to be euthanized due to possible contamination. BOAH is maintaining a dashboard to provide updates on the ongoing mitigation efforts.

According to Denise Derrer, spokesperson for BOAH, they have identified 17 commercial or poultry farms in a 10 km area around the index farm that have to quarantine while birds are tested. So far, none of those tests have come back positive.

[February 9 2022 Lassa Fever transmitted via bodily fluids. ]

Two cases of Lassa Fever have been detected in England after recently returning from West Africa. The patients are within the same family in the East of England, the UK Health Security said
Lassa fever is endemic in Nigeria and several other countries on the west coast of Africa, including Liberia and Guinea.

People usually become infected after exposure to food or household items that are contaminated with urine or faeces of infected rats.

But the virus, which can make women bleed from their vagina and trigger seizures, can also be transmitted via bodily fluids.

[january 2 2022 Is it the lobster? Not in New Brunswick!

Young adults are developing troubling symptoms, including rapid weight loss, insomnia, hallucinations and limited mobility..

But in January, the province of New Brunswick is widely expected to announce that the cluster of cases, first made public last year after a memo was leaked to the media, is the result of misdiagnoses, which have mistakenly grouped unrelated illnesses together.

Despite the striking details surrounding the newer cases, the province has worked to tamp down fears.The cluster could now be as many as 150 people, Tim Beatty’s father Laurie, died in 2019 after the onset of mental confusion around Christmas

Beatty and his sister have pleaded to have their father’s remains tested for neurotoxins, including β-Methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), which some have suggested could be the culprit behind the illness.

In one study, high concentrations of BMAA were found in lobster, an industry that drives the economies of many of New Brunswick’s coastal communities. The province’s apparent resistance to testing for suspected environmental factors has led to speculation among families that the efforts to rule out the existence of a cluster could be motivated by political decision making.

[December 29 2021 “Candida auris” an emerging pathogen of concern – 4 in Oregon }

“Candida auris is an emerging pathogen of concern because it can cause serious infections, particularly in those with serious medical problems, and can be resistant to the antifungal drugs we have to treat it,” Rebecca Pierce, Healthcare-Associated Infections Program manager with the OHA, said.

SALEM, Ore. —Two patients at an Oregon hospital contracted a dangerous fungal infection during an “outbreak” of Candida auris, a type of yeast rare to the United States, the Oregon Health Authority reported.

A case — the first ever found in Oregon — was detected at Salem Health Dec. 11 and confirmed Dec. 17 in an individual who had “recent international health care exposures.”

Two already-hospitalized patients then came down with the infection on Dec. 23 and Dec. 27.

The risk of infection to otherwise healthy people is “extremely low.”

Since 2013, about 1,150 clinical cases of Candida auris have been identified in the United States. The CDC describes it as presenting a “serious global health threat.”

[December 27 2021 HPAI: “unprecedented genetic variability” ]

Low-pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) viruses of subtypes H5 and H7 have the ability to spontaneously mutate to highly pathogenic (HPAI) virus variants,

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31969434/

“The H5N1, H5N3, H5N4, H5N5, H5N6 and H5N8 subtypes of HPAI are circulating in bird and poultry populations across the globe, sparking concern at OIE which called this an “unprecedented genetic variability of subtypes… creating an epidemiologically challenging landscape.”
A high number of bird flu outbreaks have also been reported throughout Europe, Africa and Asia in recent weeks, mostly due to the H5N1 subtype, according to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-689748

A state of emergency has been announced in Israel by the Veterinary Service at the Ministry of Agriculture on Saturday evening after H5N1 bird flu was found in chicken coops near the town of Margaliot leading to the killing of 320,000 hens after 244,000 hens were killed in a separate outbreak on Sunday.
Margaliot is a moshav in northern Israel. It is located near the border of Lebanon in the Upper Galilee area near Kiryat Shmona.
The Veterinary Service said that it isolated the coops, immediately stopped the marketing of eggs both from the coops and the sorting station that received them, and began to examine nearby coops for the disease, the ministry said.

JERUSALEM, Dec 27 (Reuters) – An outbreak of avian flu has killed more than 5,000 migratory cranes in Israel.

[December 21 2021 Czech H5N1 bird flu ]

The Czech Republic reported an outbreak of bird flu of the H5N1 type at a poultry farm with 188,000 birds, the State Veterinary Administration said.

Thousands of the birds have died already, the rest will be culled from the farm in Libotenice, 60 km (40 miles) north of Prague, the administration said.

Several hundred thousand eggs will be destroyed too.

[December 14 2021 South Sudan has 89 dead from unknown disease ]

A World Health Organization (WHO) taskforce has been sent to South Sudan to investigate an unidentified illness which has killed 89 people.

The country’s ministry of health reported that an unknown disease had killed scores of people in the northern town of Fangak in Jonglei state.

[November 27 2021 France reports Bird Flu ]

Four cases of avian flu have been found in France among wildlife and three in backyard poultry. All birds at the affected farm in the northwestern town of Warhem will be killed and a 10-kilometer surveillance perimeter has been set up, with all movement of poultry prohibited in the area.

[November 17 2921 Baltimore reports monkeypox virus ]

A single case of monkeypox virus infection was confirmed in a Maryland resident who recently returned from Niger Monkeypox is in the same family of viruses as smallpox but generally causes a milder infection. It can be spread between people through direct contact with skin lesions or body fluids, or contaminated materials such as clothing or linens. It can also be spread through large respiratory droplets which generally cannot travel more than a few feet, and prolonged face-to-face contact is required.

[November 9 2021 China reports African Swine virus ]

China reported an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) at a pig farm on Hainan island in the southern part of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) .

ASF reported administrative areas since August 2018:
China: Anhui, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanxi, Yunnan, Hunan, Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Qinghai, Guangdong, Gansu, Shandong and Hainan Provinces, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shanghai and Beijing Municipalities, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia Hui, Guangxi Zhuang, Xinjiang Uygur and Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Regions and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR).
Mongolia: Bulgan, Darkhan-Uul, Dundgovi, Orkhon, Selenge, Töv Provinces and Ulaanbaatar.
Viet Nam: All provinces and municipalities.
Cambodia: Ratanakiri, Tboung Khmum, Svay Rieng, Takeo and Kandal Provinces.
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Chagang-Do.
Lao People’s Democratic Republic: All provinces and municipality.
Myanmar: Shan, Kachin, Kayah States and Sagaing Region.
The Philippines: Abra, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Albay, Apayao, Aurora, Bataan, Batangas, Benguet, Bulacan, Cagayan, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Catanduanes, Cavite, Davao de Oro, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Occidental, Davao Oriental, Eastern Samar, Ifugao, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Isabela, Kalinga, La Union, Laguna, Lanao del Norte, Leyte, Masbate, Misamis Oriental, Mountain province, North Cotabato, Northern Samar, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Quezon, Quirino, Rizal, Samar, Sarangani, Southern Leyte, Sorsogon, Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur, Tarlac, Zambales Provinces and Metro Manila (Caloocan, Malabon and Quezon Cities).
Republic of Korea: Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do and Incheon City.
Timor-Leste: All districts.
Indonesia: North Sumatra, Riau, West Sumatra, South Sumatra, Lampung, West Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, Bali, and East Nusa Tenggara Provinces.
Papua New Guinea: Southern Highlands, Enga, Hela, Western Highlands, Jiwaka, and Simbu Provinces.
India: Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland States.
Disputed territory: Arunachal Pradesh.
Malaysia: Sabah State.
Bhutan: Chhukha District.

African swine fever is harmless to humans but often deadly to pigs.

ASF last ten weeks FAO Oct 28 2021

[november 8 2021 India: Zika virus in Kampor Uttar Pradesh ]

At least 89 people, including 17 children, have tested positive for the Zika virus in Kanpur, ‘a district in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. The virus was first identified in monkeys in Uganda in 1947. The first human case was detected in Nigeria in 1954 and there have been further outbreaks in Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. But in May 2015 it was reported in Brazil and spread rapidly. As there is no treatment, the only option is to reduce the risk of being bitten. Deaths are rare and only one-in-five people infected is thought to develop symptoms.

[November 3 2021 Bird flu: whole of Great Britain ]

In a joint statement the Chief Veterinary Officers for England, Scotland and Wales said: ‘Following a number of detections of avian influenza in wild birds across Great Britain we have declared an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone across the whole of Great Britain.

[October 26 2021 increasing genetic diversity and geographical distribution of H5N6 ]

China’s Center for Disease Control identified several mutations in two recent H5N6 cases.

“The increasing genetic diversity and geographical distribution of H5N6 pose a serious threat to the poultry industry and human health,” the researchers said. “The increasing trend of human infection with avian influenza virus has become an important public health issue that cannot be ignored.”

[October 14 2021 Nipah: virus found in fruit bats and now humans ‘1

Amid controversy and investigations about the origin of the coronavirus, it is the story of Nipah — and an encyclopedia of zoonotic diseases that includes rabies, West Nile, Ebola, HIV, MERS and SARS — that has led many scientists to argue that the most likely explanation is a natural spillover that occurred in the wild, not a leak from a lab.

[September 25 2021]

There is no vaccination for Nipah which has killed more than 260 people in Malaysia, Bangladesh and India in since the virus was first detected in the South East Asian country in 1998. The virus induces flu-like symptoms that lead to an agonising encephalitis and coma.

At least ten people have died of a disease caused by a virus found in fruit bats in the southern Indian state of Kerala, a senior functionary of the state said today.

The virus called Nipah has so far claimed 10 lives in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts in northern part of Kerala while the condition of two persons undergoing treatment for the viral disease is said to be critical, Kerala Health Minister K K Shylaja told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state’s capital city.

Two persons, who were undergoing treatment in Kozhikode, died this morning and they have been confirmed to have contracted the virus, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting Shylaja.

A lady nursing assistant, who treated some Nipa patients, died yesterday, Shylaja added.

Two women died on May 20 in Malappuram and both tested positive for Nipah virus, she said adding the duo had come to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital for treatment and had been in touch with one of the infected persons who died of the virus said.

Of the 18 samples sent for testing, 12 have tested positive for the virus, of whom 10 people have died, according to the Health Minister.

Shylaja said no fresh case has, however, been reported so far. The WHO has been informed about the outbreak.

September 10 2021 Kerala: boy dies of Nipah virus ]

The highly contagious H5N8 strain of avian influenza was found this week among ducks, hens, turkeys and pigeons. Two cases of H5N8 were reported last week in Belgium – one at a bird merchant and one at a private home – and another at a home in Luxembourg that has been linked to the merchant in Belgium, the French ministry added.

[September 9 2021]

Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala are on high alert, trying to contain the spread of the Nipah virus after a 12-year-old boy died of it on September 5. The Nipah virus was first detected in Malaysia in the late 1990s. The virus can spread through fruit bats, pigs and human contact. Some research has shown that the virus can also reach humans via other animals such as cats and dogs. The mortality rate ranges from 40% to 75%.

Symptoms include high fever, convulsions and vomiting; there is no vaccine or cure for Nipah virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) says the primary treatment is supportive care. It does remain comparatively rare among humans, with fewer than 1,000 cases ever recorded.

[August 9 2021 Hemorrhagic fever disease in West Africa ]

West Africa’s first known case of Marburg virus after at least one person in Guinea died of the hemorrhagic fever disease. The Marburg virus belongs to the same family as Ebola, and previously outbreaks have erupted elsewhere across Africa in Angola, Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.

[July 1 2021 zoonosis: first report of the H5N8 strain being passed on ]

“The discovery of these mutations when the virus has not still acquired an ability to transmit from human to human gives us all, the entire world, time to prepare for possible mutations and react in an adequate and timely fashion,” Ms Popova said.

She said Russian scientists could now start working on developing test systems.

Other strains of bird flu occasionally infect humans and have led to deaths – but this is the first report of the H5N8 strain being passed on.

Earlier this year, when bird flu outbreaks were reported across India, most of the states including neighbouring Haryana reported the H5N8 subtype of the virus, a strain which has not been known to infect humans.

Several of the H5Ny AIVs have zoonotic and pandemic potential because they have been demonstrated to cross the species barrier, transmitting to mammals, including humans.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6544/784

A zoonosis (zoonotic disease or zoonoses -plural) is an infectious disease that is transmitted between species from animals to humans (or from humans to animals).