China reports new human case of bird flu
Woman testing positive for H5N1 is country's 11th case
Feb. 8, 2006. 11:02 AM
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BEIJING ? A 26-year-old Chinese woman has contracted bird flu, the government said today, becoming at least the 11th person to be infected with the disease in China.
Until the latest case was reported in coastal Fujian province, there had been 10 reported human cases of bird flu on the mainland. Only three survived.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the Chinese Health Ministry confirmed that the woman, surnamed Liu from the Fujian's Zhangpu county, tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the virus. The report did not give her full name.
It said there has been no outbreak so far of avian flu among birds detected in the area where Liu lives. People with close contact to her before she fell ill have been put under medical observation, Xinhua said.
Earlier Wednesday, China reported its 29th outbreak of the disease in birds since Oct. 19.
Up to 15,000 fowl in Yijing, a town in China's northern Shanxi province, were found dead Feb. 2 -3, Xinhua said. It did not specify the type of birds.
They tested positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of the disease, Xinhua said.
So far, more than 187,000 birds have been culled in the area, it said.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong on Wednesday, government health officials said a dead egret found in a suburb of Hong Kong has tested positive for H5N1.
Officials have been trying to prevent epidemics in birds because it increases the chances of the disease being passed to humans.
The Chinese government says it has destroyed 22.5 million birds over the past year in order to contain repeated bird flu outbreaks in poultry in areas throughout the country.
China's human deaths were reported in Sichuan province and the Guangxi region in the south and in the provinces of Jiangxi and Anhui in the east and Fujian.
While most of the human infections have been linked to direct contact with sick poultry, experts have warned that the virus could mutate into a form that could be easily transmitted between people, possibly sparking a global flu pandemic that could kill millions.
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Woman testing positive for H5N1 is country's 11th case
Feb. 8, 2006. 11:02 AM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING ? A 26-year-old Chinese woman has contracted bird flu, the government said today, becoming at least the 11th person to be infected with the disease in China.
Until the latest case was reported in coastal Fujian province, there had been 10 reported human cases of bird flu on the mainland. Only three survived.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the Chinese Health Ministry confirmed that the woman, surnamed Liu from the Fujian's Zhangpu county, tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the virus. The report did not give her full name.
It said there has been no outbreak so far of avian flu among birds detected in the area where Liu lives. People with close contact to her before she fell ill have been put under medical observation, Xinhua said.
Earlier Wednesday, China reported its 29th outbreak of the disease in birds since Oct. 19.
Up to 15,000 fowl in Yijing, a town in China's northern Shanxi province, were found dead Feb. 2 -3, Xinhua said. It did not specify the type of birds.
They tested positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of the disease, Xinhua said.
So far, more than 187,000 birds have been culled in the area, it said.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong on Wednesday, government health officials said a dead egret found in a suburb of Hong Kong has tested positive for H5N1.
Officials have been trying to prevent epidemics in birds because it increases the chances of the disease being passed to humans.
The Chinese government says it has destroyed 22.5 million birds over the past year in order to contain repeated bird flu outbreaks in poultry in areas throughout the country.
China's human deaths were reported in Sichuan province and the Guangxi region in the south and in the provinces of Jiangxi and Anhui in the east and Fujian.
While most of the human infections have been linked to direct contact with sick poultry, experts have warned that the virus could mutate into a form that could be easily transmitted between people, possibly sparking a global flu pandemic that could kill millions.
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