They were infected with H5N2 which had never before been detected in humans – though Mexico’s health ministry later contested his cause of death, pointing out that he went into septic shock due to unrelated chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and arterial hypertension.
The Indian patient had been exposed to poultry at home and in his surroundings but his family are not thought to be infected.
India’s last human case of H9N2 bird flu occurred in 2019, WHO said.
The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – yet to be updated with the case in India – shows there have been 10 cases globally, including one in Vietnam and five in Cambodia.
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