First Human Death of Common Bird Flu Strain Reported in China

What’s new: A 56-year-old Chinese woman has become the first person in the world to die from the H3N8 strain of bird flu, which commonly infects birds but is only rarely contracted by humans, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Th Guangdong province woman was the third person known to have been infected with this subtype of influenza virus, the WHO said in a statement Tuesday.