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Detailed explanation-1: -What was found? The case of H10N3 bird flu announced by China on Tuesday is the first of its strain observed in humans.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first known cases in humans were reported in 1997, when an outbreak of avian influenza A virus subtype H5N1 in poultry in Hong Kong led to severe illness in 18 people, one-third of whom died.

Detailed explanation-3: -Past Reported Global Human Cases with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) (HPAI H5N1) by Country, 1997-2022. This graph shows all human infections with HPAI H5N1 bird flu virus reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), since the first human cases in 1997.

Detailed explanation-4: -A bird flu outbreak has been reported in a state-run poultry farm in Kozhikode district of Kerala as around 1, 800 chickens have died of the infection, official sources said.

Detailed explanation-5: -Of the poultry outbreaks, the worst affected country has been France with 68% of all recent cases, while Hungary saw 24% of cases. No other EU country reached more than 2%. However, the greatest number of detections in wild birds were reported in Germany (158), followed by the Netherlands (98) and the UK (48).