Avian flu in Lombardy: patient returned from Africa remains an isolated case

The patient infected with the H9N2 avian influenza virus in Lombardy, and coming from Africa, already had health problems that complicated the clinical picture, is under treatment for a series of concomitant diseases he suffers from, while the people who had contact with him - healthcare workers, family members, and also the passengers on the same flight - have been traced, tested, and have tested negative. There has therefore been no human-to-human transmission.

This is stated by Calogero Terregino, Director of the National and European Reference Center for Avian Influenza of the Zooprofilattico Institute of the Venezie.