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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Jane Kirby & Ryan Merrifield

Two Brit poultry workers contract bird flu after working with infected chickens

Bird flu has been detected in two poultry workers in the UK, though there are no signs of human-to-human transmission, the UK Health Security Agency (UKSA) has said.

The cases are believed to be linked to exposure to sick birds on a single poultry farm where the two people were known to have recently worked.

Neither worker suffered symptoms of infection and both cases were found during screening.

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