First Confirmed Human Case Of H5N2 Bird Flu Died Of Multiple Factors: WHO

Based on available information, the United Nations' health agency assesses the current risk to the general population posed by the virus as low.

A man infected with H5N2 bird flu, the first confirmed human infection with the strain, died from multiple factors, the WHO said on Friday, adding that investigations were ongoing.

The World Health Organization announced on Wednesday that the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with H5N2 avian influenza virus had been reported from Mexico.

Mexico's health ministry said the 59-year-old man had "a history of chronic kidney disease, type 2 diabetes (and) long-standing systemic arterial hypertension".