Lovehoney slash the price of 'amazing' toy that makes shoppers climax in seconds H5N6 was first detected in people in 2014, and since then, 88 cases of the strain have been recorded, all but two in China, in the last 10 years. There is no human bird flu jab available.

This has forced health officials to take the disease more seriously and the plans for a stockpile are the first time it has been done for bird flu, which is now seen as a major threat for the next pandemic. News of the fatality comes as British health officials work on plans to stockpile vaccines in case of a bird flu pandemic in humans.Īlthough the virus mainly affects birds, it occasionally jumps to humans, especially those in close contact with poultry and it has a frightening death rate that can go as high as 50 per cent. Her death has only just been reported by the authorities. The 33-year-old first developed symptoms on October 22 and was quickly taken to hospital but she died on November 14. A woman died after contracting H5N6 – a rare form of bird flu – following a visit to a live poultry market in Sichuan, Hong Kong.