Recall the SARS outbreak, the first pandemic of the 21st century. Chickens can infect humans with bacteria that cause urinary tract infections and in some cases heart valve infections. There is a growing concern in the international science community for potentially resistant bacteria that are transmitted from animals to humans. There is some . According to the advisory, the virus was detected in several of their sentinel chickens, which are just regular chickens that health departments raise in areas endemic to mosquito-borne viruses. This virus can mutate easily, aggravating symptoms of the disease. It was not until 1997 that the H5 subtype of this virus began to affect humans in Hong Kong. It is not known for certain whether the virus can spread from human to human. DONT MISS Keeping backyard chickens comes with a human health risk, CDC warns. Though scientists were able to identify that the virus had jumped from bats to humans, the discovery didn’t at all mean that all animals could convey the coronavirus to humans. By Mary Brophy Marcus June 2, 2017 / 4:05 PM / CBS News The most known subtypes are H5 and H7, as they are the ones that cause the disease in humans. No risks to human health are suspected or have been demonstrated to arise from poultry corona virus IBV. While it’s unlikely that the virus could transfer from chickens to humans, it’s not impossible. Professor Kenney added: ”If the human cell culture model is as predictive as it was with the chickens, then humans are definitely susceptible to having virus-related disease. In similar vein, there’s no scientific evidence to support the claim that chicken harbour COVID-19 and transmit it to humans. Possibility of transmission of virus from human to human or human to animal has no evidence. 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