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China warns against novel avian influenza virus strains (Antara, December 25 2013, edited)

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  • China warns against novel avian influenza virus strains (Antara, December 25 2013, edited)

    [Source: Antara, full text in Bahasan: (LINK). Automatic translation.]


    China warns against novel avian influenza virus strains

    (December 24 2013)


    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese health authorities to tighten controls and alert to the emergence of a new strain of bird flu virus, after it emerged some H7N9 strain of bird flu cases since March in several areas on the mainland and islands.

    Parties health authorities on Tuesday expressed at the end of last week there were 4,000 chickens died at a poultry farm in the northern province of Hebei, due to bird flu virus strain H5N2.

    Reported in Jiangxi Province emergence of a new strain of bird flu virus that killed a H10N8 and 73-year-old woman while being treated at a local hospital.

    Influenza virus case avian strain H7N9, the Chinese government recorded about 143 cases since March 2013. Including six new cases that occurred in Guangdong Province last October and five cases in Zhejiang Province.

    Meanwhile, in Hong Kong reported a case of H7N9 that struck an Indonesian citizen Tri Mawarti. The case is the first case that afflict humans in Hong Kong. Nowadays, although his condition has improved, but the woman from Banjarnegara was still in the room isloasi Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital, for intensive observation of Hong Kong's health authorities.

    "With the advent of a new case and a new variant bird flu virus, the government will tighten supervision on all cases of bird flu and the number of cases of respiratory and lung disorders in China, considering winter is a season that is very conducive to the spread of the virus, "a statement from the Chinese health authorities. (*)


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