date:Mar 15, 2023
at despite reports of HPAI in humans leading to death, humans are rarely infected. Of those infected, almost all were reported as relating to people not wearing protective equipment while being exposed to sick or dead poultry.
ECDC also notes that the circulating HPAI viruses are vulnerable to antiviral medicines available to humans and that these viruses preferentially bind to avian-like receptors present in birds and not to human-like receptors.
As such, the ECDC assesses that risk to the Eu