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China: Woman, 19, Confirmed H5N1 Death - Contacts Monitored
The impression this and other articles are giving is that Hong Kong just found out about this case. If that is true, that is a big problem for Hong Kong and the rest of the world. Sounds like the SARS secrecy all over again.
Re: China: death of a woman apparently affected by avian flu
China confirms bird flu death of Beijing woman-WHO
06 Jan 2009 11:44:13 GMT
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GENEVA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - China's health ministry has confirmed that a 19-year-old woman died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
China recorded three bird flu cases last year, all fatal. The bird flu virus is constantly mutating, and experts fear it could change into a form that is easily transmitted from person to person and kill millions of people worldwide.
At present, H5N1 remains mainly a bird virus, but WHO data released in mid-December showed 247 people had died from it out of 391 cases since the virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003.
"We received confirmation of the case from the Chinese health ministry. A 19-year-old woman died on Monday in Beijing of H5N1," WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said in Geneva. He had no further information.
Earlier, the Beijing Municipal Bureau and Hong Kong's government gave more details of the latest case.
"The woman fell ill on Dec. 24, was hospitalised on Dec. 27 and died on Monday (at) 7.20 am," the bureau said in a faxed statement.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection said the woman had had contact with poultry before the onset of symptoms. China's official Xinhua News Agency earlier reported the woman had bought nine ducks at a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing. (Reporting by Tan Ee Lyn in Hong Kong and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; editing by Paul Tait and Tim Pearce)
06 Jan 2009 12:57:11 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds Xinhua details in paragraph 9)
BEIJING/HONGKONG, Jan 6 (Reuters) -
A 19-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing after coming into contact with poultry, health authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong said on Tuesday.
This human H5N1 case would be China's first in almost a year. Experts said while the case was not unexpected as the virus is more active during the cooler months between October and March, it points to holes in surveillance of the virus in poultry.
With the world's biggest poultry population and hundreds of millions of farmers raising birds in their backyards, China is seen as crucial in the global fight against bird flu.
"The woman fell ill on Dec. 24, was hospitalised on Dec. 27 and died on Monday (at) 7.20 am," the Beijing Municipal Bureau said in a faxed statement.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection said the woman had had contact with poultry before falling ill.
China's official Xinhua News Agency earlier reported that the woman from eastern Fujian province had bought nine ducks at a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, and then gutted the birds.
She gave three ducks to her father, uncle and a friend and kept the other six ducks, the agency reported.
It added that 116 people, including the patient's 14 family members and neighbour and 102 medical workers, had been in close contact with the patient.
A total of 13 people consumed the ducks bought by the victim, but she was the only one who fell ill, Xinhua said.
The market was open for business on Tuesday night and ducks were still being sold there, it said.
"In many parts of the world, human H5N1 cases are due to contact with infected poultry. A human case would confirm that there is poultry infection somewhere in the vicinity," said a virologist in Hong Kong who declined to be identified.
"It means that there are some leaks in surveillance in the poultry side (in China)," he said.
"Of course, we are approaching Chinese New Year and there is an increase in production, movement in poultry. That's why there's an increase in poultry infection."
The H5N1 remains largely a disease among birds but experts fear it could change into a form that is easily transmitted from person to person, and spark a pandemic that can kill millions of people worldwide.
Beijing has reported the case to the World Health Organization and health authorities in Hong Kong and Macau, and convened an emergency meeting to handle the bird flu case.
The WHO in Beijing said it had offered technical assistance.
Since the H5N1 virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003, it has infected 391 people, killing 247 of them, according to WHO figures released in mid-December.
The last human H5N1 death in China was in February last year when a 44-year-old woman died in the southern Guangdong province.
At least 20 people have died of bird flu in China to date.
In neighbouring Vietnam, a five-year-old has been infected with bird flu, the first human case reported in the country this year, Vietnam's state-run television said on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom, Yu Le, Kirby Chien and Ben Blanchard in Beijing and Tan Ee Lyn in Hong Kong; Editing by Sugita Katyal and Jerry Norton)
Beijing Reports Fatality in Suspected Bird-Flu Case (Update4)
By Stephanie Wong
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) --
Beijing, the most severely infected city during the 2003 global SARS epidemic, has reported a possible death from avian flu, as an unusually cold winter saps resistance in the Chinese capital.
Huang Yanqing, who died at 7:20 a.m. yesterday in a Beijing hospital, handled the innards of nine ducks bought from a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, state-owned Xinhua News Agency said today in its English service. She had contact with 116 people, Xinhua said, citing the local health bureau.
The Geneva-based World Health Organization said China?s health ministry informed it today of the death, adding that it is prepared to offer technical assistance, according to a statement sent on PRNewswire.
Health and agricultural authorities culled 377,000 poultry in eastern China?s Jiangsu province in December after finding the H5N1 strain of the bird-flu virus in chickens. Areas where the poultry were raised had been disinfected, other birds were placed under quarantine, while the transport of poultry was restricted.
Contact with migratory birds carrying the virus is one possible cause of infection in poultry. Dead chickens in Hong Kong tested positive for the H5N1 strain last month and India culled more than 250,000 birds in its northeastern region to contain an outbreak.
The H5N1 strain of the avian-flu virus has afflicted 392 people worldwide since 2003, according to the WHO. Almost two of every three cases were fatal.
China?s Bird Flu
China has had 31 bird-flu cases in humans and 21 deaths since 2003, according to the WHO. A 24 year-old-man who died in Beijing in 2003 was initially thought to have died from the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Subsequent laboratory tests confirmed he had died from the avian flu, making him the first fatality in the Chinese capital from the disease.
Huang, 19, contracted her disease on Christmas Eve and was hospitalized on Dec. 27, according to a statement today on the Beijing health bureau?s Web site.
A nurse recovered from the fever she?d developed after coming in contact with the deceased woman, Xinhua reported.
China?s government was criticized by the WHO for its slow response to the 2003 SARS outbreak, which infected 8,098 people globally, killing 774, almost a third of the cases in the Chinese capital. President Hu Jintao fired health minister Zhang Wenkang and Beijing mayor Meng Xuenong in 2003, after admitting that the city had covered up the number of SARS cases in the city.
An emergency meeting was convened yesterday in Beijing to handle the bird-flu case, Xinhua said without elaborating.
To contact the reporter on this story: Stephanie Wong in Shanghai at swong139@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: January 6, 2009 10:17 EST
A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital, the government reported Tuesday, but the World Health Organization said the case did not appear to signal a new public health threat.
China's Ministry of Health said Huang Yanqing, 19, died Monday and tests confirmed she had the H5N1 bird flu virus. The official Xinhua News Agency said Huang became ill after buying and cleaning nine ducks in December at a market in Hebei province, which borders Beijing.
It was the first reported death in China from the illness in nearly a year.Her father, Huang Jinxian, told reporters that the family tried to treat Yanqing at home first with store bought medicine.
"It was useless, so we sent her to Guanzhuang hospital" in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, he said.
The WHO said Huang's case was similar to others reported worldwide, in that it did not appear to involve human-to-human transmission.
"This single case, which appears to have occurred during the slaughtering and preparation of poultry, does not change our risk assessment," the organization's Beijing office said in a statement.
Officials worry the virus could mutate into a much-feared form that could spread easily among people. But, for now, it remains hard for people to catch, with most human cases linked to contact with infected birds.
According to the latest WHO tally, bird flu has killed 248 people worldwide since 2003, including 21 in China.
In northern Vietnam, meanwhile, an 8-year-old girl has tested positive for the disease ? the first human case reported there in almost a year, health officials said Tuesday.
The girl from Thanh Hoa province was admitted to a hospital on Dec. 27 with a high fever and other symptoms after eating a sick goose raised by the family, said Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, acting director of the provincial health department. The girl is recovering.
The H5N1 bird flu virus continues to devastate poultry stocks around the world. China, which raises more poultry than any other country, has vowed to aggressively fight the virus.
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Emergency meeting, I wonder what the emergency is, can't be 1 confirmed case ?
Evidently, the fear is about the more than hundred of people involved, mostly health care workers that had contacts with deceased patient.
Tracing poultry movement is also an urgent task, because the market is said to be remained open until tuesday and the ducks have been sold well beyond the onset date of the patient firstly has bought infected animals.
Re: China: Woman, 19, Confirmed H5N1 Death - Contacts Monitored
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China's official Xinhua News Agency earlier reported that the woman from eastern Fujian province had bought nine ducks at a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, and then gutted the birds.
She gave three ducks to her father, uncle and a friend and kept the other six ducks, the agency reported.
It added that 116 people, including the patient's 14 family members and neighbour and 102 medical workers, had been in close contact with the patient.
A total of 13 people consumed the ducks bought by the victim, but she was the only one who fell ill, Xinhua said.
The market was open for business on Tuesday night and ducks were still being sold there, it said.
Re: China: Woman, 19, Confirmed H5N1 Death - Contacts Monitored
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曾清洗鸭子内脏女子染禽流感病逝
Cleaning woman had been infected duck offal died of bird flu
[亚洲新闻网] 沉寂一时的禽流感病毒又再肆虐。
[Asia News Network] silence the moment the bird flu virus raging again. 中国北京一名少女证实感染了禽流感而死亡。
Beijing, China confirmed a teenage girl was infected with bird flu.
越南也有一名八岁女童被发现染上禽流感，她在入院前曾经接触过家禽。 Vietnam also has an eight-year-old girl was found infected with bird flu, she had been in pre-hospital exposure to poultry. 卫生人员也从她住家附近的家禽身上，验出H5N1病毒。 Health personnel from her home near the body of poultry, tested H5N1.
病逝的19岁少女黄燕清，住在北京朝阳区的一个村子里。
The 19-year-old girl died Huang Yan-qing, living in Chaoyang District, Beijing, in a village.
她在两个多星期前出现肺炎等禽流感症状而入院治疗，星期一不治身亡。
She more than two weeks before the emergence of bird flu symptoms such as pneumonia and were admitted into hospital on Monday died.
死者患病前曾经在河北省买回几只当场宰杀的鸭子，并清洗过鸭子内脏。
The deceased had been sick before in Hebei Province on the spot to buy a few ducks slaughtered and cleaned duck offal.
Beijing Municipal Government has been sending health personnel, for the deceased, a resident of the village comprehensive disinfection, at the same time keep a close watch on the deceased have been in contact with more than 100 health.
当局也相继向世界卫生组织以及港澳地区通报了相关信息。
Authorities also have to inform the World Health Organization, and Hong Kong and Macao regions of the relevant information. 中国已经有至少20人死于禽流感。 China has at least 20 people have died of bird flu.
Re: China: Woman, 19, Confirmed H5N1 Death - Contacts Monitored
19-year-old woman in Beijing dies of avian flu Created: 2009-1-7 1:26:06
A 19-YEAR-OLD Beijing woman who suffered the city's first human case of bird flu since 2003 has died, municipal health authorities said yesterday.
There were no immediate reports of any other illnesses associated with her death or outbreaks of bird flu among flocks in the region.
Huang Yanqing, who became sick on December 24, was hospitalized on December 27 as her condition deteriorated. She died on Monday morning.
Experts at the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Preventive Medical Research and the Academy of Military Medical Sciences checked biological samples taken from Huang.
The samples tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, and the results were confirmed by the Ministry of Health.
Huang, a native of east China's Fujian Province who lived in Beijing, bought nine ducks on December 19 at the Yanjiaoqingong Market in Langfang City in Hebei Province.
Huang removed the ducks' internal organs, according to the Beijing Health Bureau, and gave ducks to her father, uncle and a friend and kept the other six ducks.
"According to the initial investigation, 13 people ate the ducks, and Huang was the only one who fell ill," said Zhao Qingchao, a Langfang government official.
"We thoroughly combed all stands in the market," he added.
The official said the ducks were traced to Jixian County in Tianjin City, which borders Beijing.
As of last evening, the Yanjiaoqingong Market was still open for business, and ducks were still being sold there.
No bird flu cases have been found in Langfang City so far, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.
Experts at the ministry, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Preventive Medical Research have arrived in Langfang to complete the investigation.
The Beijing Health Bureau said 116 people, including Huang's 14 family members and neighbors and 102 medical workers, had been in close contact with the patient. Among them, one nurse suffered a fever but has recovered.
Beijing reported the case to the World Health Organization and health authorities in the Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions.
An emergency meeting was convened in Beijing on Monday evening to address the bird flu case.
Beijing has carried out a series of bird flu prevention and control measures, including disinfecting and isolating Huang's house and the wards where she was treated.
Medical institutions at all levels are closely monitoring for possible additional cases, according to local officials.
Last month, a baby girl was diagnosed as having the less-virulent H9N2 bird flu strain and received treatment in a Hong Kong hospital.
Gene sequencing by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory indicated that this virus is very similar to the avian influenza virus variant isolated in Shanxi in 2006.
A 19-year-old Beijing woman has died of avian flu, reigniting fears of bird flu transmission to humans.
It is the first reported death from the disease in the mainland for nearly a year.
Chinese University microbiologist Paul Chan Kay-sheung said yesterday that, as long as the virus continues to circulate in poultry, the threat of transmission to humans remains.
"There is no sign avian flu is weakening. So we expect to see more humans getting the virus from birds," Chan said.
He also warned that, once human-to-human transmissions were detected, the world could face a pandemic.
Chan said global statistics indicate the death rate of bird flu in humans is 60 percent, which is "very high" when compared with one in a thousand in normal human flu.
He said the large human traffic between Hong Kong and the mainland increases the risk of transmission. But he stopped short of saying Hong Kong should stockpile the new H5 vaccines.
Confirmation of the H5N1 death in Beijing was received by the Department of Health's Centre for Health Protection yesterday.
A CHP spokesman said the victim was a 19-year- old woman who lived in a Beijing suburb.
She developed symptoms on December 24 and died on January 5.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the woman, Huang Yanqing, died on Monday after buying nine ducks at a market in Beijing's neighboring Hebei province.
The bureau said 116 people had been in close contact with Huang.
One of them, a nurse, had contracted a fever but recovered.
In Vietnam, authorities reported an eight-year- old girl has tested positive for H5N1 in the north of the country.
The girl contracted pneumonia in Thanh Hoa province on December 27 after eating poultry and was admitted to a provincial hospital on January 2, local officials said.
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