China reports another human case of bird flu (girl 8-Sichuan)

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China reports another human case of bird flu
Thursday ? April 27, 2006
China has reported another case of human bird flu, involving an eight-year-old student in the southwestern province of Sichuan who is being treated at a hospital.
The girl, from Suining city, came down with fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on April 16, the Ministry of Health said on its website.
Test results that came back Thursday confirmed the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the ministry said. ? AFP

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Le jeudi 27 avril 2006

VIRUS DE LA GRIPPE AVIAIRE

La Chine annonce un 18e cas humain

Agence France-Presse

Pékin

La Chine a annoncé jeudi un dix-huitième cas humain de grippe d'origine aviaire, une fillette habitant dans la province du Sichuan, dans le Sud-Ouest.

Résidant dans la ville de Suining, cette enfant âgée de huit ans nommée Sun a été admise, en proie à de la fièvre, le 16 avril à l'hôpital (les symptômes faisaient alors songer à une pneumonie), a annoncé le ministère chinois de la Santé sur son site Internet.

Les résultats parvenus jeudi de tests ont confirmé qu'il s'agissait du virus hautement pathogène H5N1 de la grippe aviaire.



Aucune information n'a été fournie sur l'état dans lequel se trouve actuellement la fillette.

Le ministère de la Santé a précisé que les volailles appartenant à la famille de cette enfant étaient mortes, sans préciser toutefois si elles avaient ou non été victimes de la grippe aviaire.

Aucun foyer de grippe aviaire n'a été recensé depuis fin février dans les élevages d'oiseaux du pays.

Les autorités ont mis en observation toutes les personnes ayant été en contact étroit avec Sun, a fait savoir le ministère, ajoutant qu'aucun symptôme de cette maladie n'avait été décelé chez elles.

À ce jour, douze des 18 personnes contaminées par le virus de la grippe aviaire en Chine ont trouvé la mort.


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Thursday April 27, 2006
AVIARY FLU VIRUS
China announces one 18th human case
Arrange France-Press
Peijing
China announced Thursday one eighteenth human case of aviary influenza of origin, a young girl living in the province of Sichuan, in South-west.
Residing in the town of Suining, this eight years old child named Sun was allowed, in prey with fever, April 16 at the hospital (the symptoms then made think of a pneumonia), the Chinese ministry of Health announced on its Internet site.
The parvenu results Thursday of tests confirmed that it acted of virus highly pathogenic H5N1 of the aviary influenza.
No information was provided on the state in which currently the young girl is.
The ministry for Health specified that the poultries belonging to the family of this child had died, without specifying however if they had or not been victims of the aviary influenza.
No hearth of aviary influenza was listed since the end of February in the breedings of birds of the country.
The authorities put in observation all the people having been in close contact with Sun, let know the ministry, adding that no symptom of this disease had been detected at them.
To date, twelve of the 18 people contaminated by the aviary flu virus in China found death.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20060427/CPMONDE/60427073/5668/CPMONDE

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Girl in critical condition with virus

Girl in critical condition with virus
By Huang Zhiling (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-04-29 07:03

CHENGDU: An 8-year girl is in a critical condition in hospital with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

Health chiefs said on Friday she was receiving treatment at Suining Municipal People's Hospital in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.

She is the third person to contract bird flu in Sichuan and the 18th in the country.

Twelve of the country's 18 cases have proved fatal.

Su Lin, chief of the Emergency Response Office of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Health, said the latest victim was in a critical condition.

The girl, surnamed Sun, is from Tangjia Township in Suining, a city in central Sichuan.

She showed symptoms of fever and pneumonia on April 16. Poultry deaths occurred in her house before she fell ill. "Investigators report the deaths of chickens in several farm houses nearby, too," Su told China Daily.

Tests on the girl carried out by the Sichuan Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed she was suffering with bird flu. China's national CDC confirmed she had the H5N1 strain on Thursday.

She is confirmed to be infected with bird flu in line with the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese official standards, said the Ministry of Health.

Governments and health departments at all levels in Sichuan took immediate prevention and control measures after the case was revealed.

Nearly 150 people who had been in close contact with the girl have been put under medical observation by local health authorities.

"Every day, medics take their temperatures and observe whether they have symptoms of a cold. So far, no one has shown any abnormal symptoms," Su said.

The Ministry of Health has reported the case to WHO, Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan Province, as well as several countries.

Sichuan's first two human bird flu cases occurred in January, and both patients died. The first case involved a 35-year-old woman surnamed Wei in Jianyang in western Sichuan. She was a poultry slaughterer.

The second case involved a 29-year-old grocery store owner surnamed Cao in Jinhua Town in the suburbs of Chengdu. She had not been in contact with any dead poultry before falling ill.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/home/2006-04/29/content_579960.htm