First human case of H5N2 bird flu died from multiple factors: WHO

Geneva: A man infected with H5N2 bird flu, the first confirmed human infection with the strain, died from multiple factors, the WHO said Friday, addin...

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

The World Health Organization announced 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".

He had been bedridden for three weeks before the onset of acute symptoms, developing fever, shortness of breath, diarrhoea, nausea and general malaise on April 17.

The man was taken to hospital in Mexico City on April 24 and died later that day.