WHO confirms first fatal human case of H5N2 bird flu

Indian workers hold medicine to be taken as a precautionary measure, inside Deer Park, amidst a bird flu scare in New Delhi on October 23, 2016. [AFP]

A person died of bird flu in Mexico in the first confirmed case of a human infected with the H5N2 variant, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The 59-year old, who died on April 24 after developing fever, shortness of breath, diarrhoea and nausea, had "no history of exposure to poultry or other animals" and "multiple underlying medical conditions", the WHO said in a statement.