LONDON—Two poultry workers in the UK have tested positive for bird flu, but they had no symptoms and there’s no evidence of transmission between people, the Health Security Agency said Tuesday.
The two are the first humans to test positive for the virus in the UK since the agency announced a case of a 79-year-old English man who was infected after allowing ducks into his home.
The agency said bird-to-human transmission of avian flu had occurred in the UK only a small number of times prior to that January 2022 infection.
The poultry workers who tested positive for the H5 strain were believed to have been exposed to sick birds while working at the same farm, which was not identified….