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You can check health advice for the country you're visiting on the TravelHealthPro website. Avoid visiting these markets if you're travelling to countries that have had an outbreak of bird flu. Markets where live birds are sold can also be a source of bird flu.

killing or preparing infected poultry for cooking.

How bird flu spreads to humansīird flu is spread by close contact with an infected bird (dead or alive). You can read the latest bird flu updates on GOV.UK. H5N6 has also been found in some wild birds in the UK, but this is a different strain to the H5N6 virus that has infected some people in China.

H5N8 and H5N1 bird flu have been found in some poultry, other captive birds and wild birds in the UK. Plans are in place to manage any suspected cases of bird flu in the UK. In February 2021 H5N8 was found to have infected a small number of people for the first time, in Russia.

But there are 4 strains that have caused concern in recent years:Īlthough H5N1, H7N9 and H5N6 don't infect people easily and aren't usually spread from human to human, several people have been infected around the world, leading to a number of deaths. There are lots of different strains of bird flu virus. Bird flu, or avian flu, is an infectious type of influenza that spreads among birds.