Lombardy man becomes first Italian human bird flu case

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 25 - A man in Lombardy has become Italy's first case of human infection by bird flu, epidemiologist Gianni Rezza told ANSA Wednesday. The case of infection with the low-pathogenicity animal (avian) influenza A(H9N2) virus identified in a human in Lombardy is "the first human case of avian influenza ever diagnosed in Italy," he said. "It is therefore the first human case ever in Italy, but it is not causing particular alarm since it is an isolated, imported, non-native case ...

By ANSA