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China soldier infected with bird flu

China Reports Bird Flu Infection in Military

China Reports Bird Flu Infection in Military


China's Health Ministry Saturday confirmed a case of H5N1 infection known as bird flu in a 19-year-old soldier. <TABLE align=right><TBODY><TR><TD width="100%"><SCRIPT type=text/javascript><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-4864473589052117"; google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.medindia.net/includes/square_video.asp"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; google_ad_format = "300x250_as"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_ad_channel ="6750099810"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "000080"; google_color_url = "336699"; google_color_text = "000080"; //--></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type=text/javascript> </SCRIPT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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The ministry identified the man by his surname, Cheng, and said he was under treatment at a People's Liberation Army hospital.

But it did not specify his unit or say which region he came from, maintaining the government's customary secrecy for military affairs.

Cheng developed symptoms of fever, coughing and pneumonia on May 9 and was admitted to hospital on May 14, the ministry said.

Tests on May 18 suggested that he was infected with H5N1 bird flu, and national government and military health officials confirmed the results Wednesday.

The health ministry had reported the case to the World Health Organization and regional health authorities, it said.

The new case brings the total number of human infections with bird flu reported in China to 25 since 2003 of which 15 were fatal.

Experts have long warned that the virus might be more widespread in China, where dozens of outbreaks of H5N1 have been reported in poultry, the most recent one last weekend in the central province of Hunan.

H5N1 bird flu had infected 307 people, including 186 who died, in 12 mainly Asian and African nations by May 24, according to WHO statistics.

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Whoops! Dupe. Treyfish already posted above. Nevah mind! (Thanks, CG!)

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AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (84): CHINA
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A ProMED-mail post
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Date: Sat 26 May 2007
Source: Xinhua News Agency [edited]
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-05/26/content_6155546.htm>


China's Ministry of Health has confirmed a new human case of bird
flu, the Ministry announced on its website Saturday [26 May 2007]. A
19-year-old soldier in the People's Liberation Army (PLA), is now
receiving treatment at an army hospital, the Ministry said. A
[Ministry] spokesman declined to say in which part of the country
[the soldier] was stationed or how he may have come in contact with the virus.

The man developed symptoms of fever, cough, and pneumonia on 9 May
2007. He was sent to an army hospital on 14 May 2007, [where he
remains hospitalized]. Tests [performed] by the local Center for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on 18 May 2007, showed that he
had been infected with bird flu virus serotype H5N1. The result was
confirmed by Chinese and PLA CDCs on Wednesday [23 May 2007]. The
website did not indicate Cheng's current condition.

The ministry said leaders of the State Council and the Central
Committee of PLA were "highly concerned" by the case. They have
ordered the army to cooperate with the local health bureau to closely
monitor those who have had close contact with the patient. So far,
none have shown symptoms of the disease.

According to the website, China's Health Ministry has conveyed the
information to the World Health Organization (WHO), health agencies
in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and some countries.

China has reported a total of 25 human cases of bird flu since 2003,
which have caused 15 deaths. On 27 Mar 2007, a 16-year-old boy in
eastern Anhui Province died from the deadly virus. The [source] of
his infection is still unknown.

The Ministry of Health confirmed last August [2006] that the
country's 1st human case of H5N1 bird flu virus occurred in November
2003. A 24-year-old man who died in Beijing in 2003, was initially
thought to be suffering from SARS. Further laboratory tests confirmed
he died of human avian influenza.

[Byline: Jiang Yuxia]

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Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Dan Silver

[see also:
Avian influenza, human (62): China, Egypt, WHO 20070331.1103
Avian influenza, human (61): China, Indonesia 20070329.1080
Avian influenza, human (58): Egypt, China (Hong Kong) 20070326.1046
Avian influenza, human (55): H9N2, China (Hong Kong SAR) 20070320.0975
Avian influenza, human (46): China 20070304.0752
Avian influenza, human (44): China, Egypt, WHO 20070301.0732
Avian influenza, human (43): China, Egypt 20070228.0718
Avian influenza, human (07): Indonesia, China WHO 20070110.0109]
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soldier in fujian.

china have send a human fujian virus at USA, last week

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-05-28-05-49-12

WHO: Bird flu continues to be public health threat in China as new case reported in military
By AUDRA ANG
Associated Press Writer
<!-- Story-MediaBoxPosition: 0 empty --> BEIJING (AP) -- China's latest reported case of bird flu - a soldier - has left questions about how he contracted the virus and shows that the disease remains a public health threat, the World Health Organization said Monday.
China's Health Ministry announced Saturday that the 19-year-old soldier who was hospitalized May 14 with a fever and a cough had contracted the H5N1 bird flu.
The announcement did not further identify the soldier or how he might have contracted the disease - questions the WHO said it was pressing the Health Ministry to answer.
Joanna Brent, the WHO's spokeswoman in Beijing, said the ministry told the health body Monday that the soldier was stationed in the southern province of Fujian but did not have any more details.
"One individual H5N1 case is not in itself cause for alarm but its occurrence shows that the virus is still circulating and a continuing public health threat," Brent said.
According to her, the ministry also said Monday people who had close contact with the soldier were under medical observation but showed no signs of disease.
"Again there's been a human case without a poultry outbreak warning and so there needs to be strengthened surveillance," Brent said.
China's two other reported human cases of bird flu this year were a farmer in Fujian and a 16-year-old boy who died in March in the eastern province of Anhui - the country's 15th fatality from the disease.
International experts have repeatedly complained about Chinese reticence in cooperating on investigating emerging diseases like bird flu and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Additionally, the military, a power unto itself in China, is usually secretive about its operations. Last year, it was disclosed that new tests on the body of a 24-year-old soldier who died in 2003 in Beijing confirmed that he succumbed to bird flu.
The military also has not provided a promised virus sample from that case, the WHO has said.
Two other specimens from recent human cases in China arrived in the United States last week from the Health Ministry after a lag of about a year.
While the WHO does not mandate sharing virus samples, they are needed to produce diagnostic tools and vaccines. The lack of cooperation, experts say, could slow efforts to track diseases and develop vaccines and other strategies to deal with them.
 
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=435 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=featurebluetxt vAlign=top align=left width=435>26 May 2007</TD></TR><TR><TD class=featurebluetxt vAlign=top align=left width=435 height=5>
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=featuretitletxt vAlign=top align=left width=435 height=21>Notification of a human avian flu case in Mainland received
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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health received notification from the Ministry of Health today (May 26) concerning a confirmed human case of avian influenza H5N1 in the Mainland. A CHP spokesman said the patient was a 19-year-old male member of the People's Liberation Army who developed fever, cough and pneumonia symptoms on May 9 this year. He was admitted to hospital on May 14 and is under treatment. Laboratory tests on the patient's specimen by China Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention yielded positive to H5N1.
The CHP is maintaining close liaison with the Ministry of Health to obtain more information on the case.
The spokesman reminded members of the public to remain vigilant against avian influenza infection and to observe the following measures:
* Avoid direct contact with poultry and birds or their droppings; if contacts have been made, they should wash hands thoroughly with soap and water;
* Poultry and eggs should be thoroughly cooked before eating;
* Wash hands frequently;
* Cover nose and mouth while sneezing or coughing, hold the spit with tissue and put it into covered dustbins;
* Avoid crowded places and contact with sick people with fever;
* Wear a mask when you have respiratory symptoms or need to take care of patients with fever;
* When you have fever and influenza-like illnesses during a trip or when coming back to Hong Kong, you should consult doctors promptly and reveal your travel history. :tiphat:
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http://www.chp.gov.hk/view_content.asp?lang=en&info_id=9674
 
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Boxun report
Google Translated


PLA troops stationed in Fujian front line sudden outbreak of the avian flu!
The avian flu (ABC Beijing time on May 29, 2007 reproduced)

The Chinese Ministry of Health has recently announced a military infected with the avian flu. It has been reported that the cadets for the garrison, Nanan City, Fujian Province, Quanzhou City in the People's Liberation Army 180 Hospital in serious condition.

Hong Kong, "Oriental Daily" reported today that the Beijing authorities and the local government that is very tense, Apart from the epidemic site strictly confidential; the city and neighboring districts also have strict screening fever patients to check all farms, suspicious poultry culling to prevent further outbreak of the epidemic.

The report quoted PLA 180 hospital sources said, infected with the avian flu PLA officers are receiving hospital treatment. A total of 180 hospitals are 31 army group under the military field hospital.

Quoting reports Nanan City Center for Disease Prevention and Control Office, said infected officers from the local officials and Horticulture at the garrison.

According to the report, China's official Although he refused to release soldiers infected with the avian flu and the specific location of infection routes, But in the epidemic area, the news has spread, people!

Horticulture Magazine sticks official villagers Kwok said he had heard of a local PLA officers of contracting the avian flu, Just four days ago, a large number of Chinese health departments and public security staff to villages destroyed all poultry, and thoroughly disinfected.

Another villager surnamed Zhang said that the homes of villagers in the poultry seedlings were packed in plastic bags were disposed of staff, large poultry vaccine sleeps.

Fujian Nan'an Garrison infected with the avian flu news gets out, The Chinese Ministry of Health spokesman Mao Qunan accept the "Oriental Daily" inquiries, the news neither confirm, can not deny it. (ABC boxun.com)

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could someone please check that ive translated this properly,thank you.
 
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Here's World Lingo's translation of report posted by "vinny" (Good catch vinny!)


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<center>The infection bird flu Chinese Communist Party officer garrisons for Fujian
Please look at the abundant news hot spot:Bird flu
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Chinese Medical department announced a communist army to infect the bird flu on the other day.According to the report, this officer for the Fujian Province Nan'an city garrison, in the Quanzhou People's Liberation Army 180 hospital treatments, the situation is at present serious![SIZE=-6]n.com)[/SIZE]

Hong Kong “the Eastern Daily” today reported that, the Beijing authority and the local government are extremely anxious for this, eliminate strictly keep secret to the epidemic situation place, the Nan'an city and the neighboring county also in abundance strictly sieve give off heat the patient, inspects each breeding farm, throws oneself kills the suspicious domesticated fowl, prevented the epidemic situation further erupts.

The report quotes People's Liberation Army 180 hospital news public figure to say that, infects the bird flu People's Liberation Army officer this courtyard to accept the treatment.180 hospitals are the communist army 31 group army subordinate's field hospitals.

Reported and quotes the Nan'an city Centers for Disease Control and Prevention office personnel to indicate, catches an illness the officer comes from the locality to be located the official Qiaozhen's garrison.

According to report, Chinese official although refuses the foreign announcement serviceman to infect the bird flu the concrete position and the infection way, but in quarantine area, news already run all over the place, flustered!

Official Qiaozhen immortal village villagers Ms. Guo indicated that, had heard the locality has the People's Liberation Army officer to catch the bird flu, four days ago large quantities of China Medical department staff and the public security enter the village to throw oneself kill all chicken duck, and carries on the comprehensive disinfection.

Another surname villagers indicated that, in the villagers family's chicken duck seedling is installed is stepped on in the plastic bag by the staff dies, the big domesticated fowl must hit the vaccine.

<!--bodyend--> After the Fujian Nan'an garrisons the infection bird flu news to spread, Chinese Medical department spokesperson Mao Qunan accepts “the Eastern Daily” when the inquiry indicated, already cannot confirm to the above news, also cannot deny.(Abundant news boxun.com)

<center>The People's Liberation Army erupts suddenly in the Fujian front army the bird flu!
Please look at the abundant news hot spot:Bird flu
(<small>Abundant news Beijing standard time on May 29, 2007</small> <small>Reprint</small>)</center> <!--bodystart-->
edited: same article posted May 28th & again May 29th (???)
 
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pixie asked susan c to translate and she says its only 1 person.here is another report from there.China Ministry of Health has recently announced a military infected with the avian flu.It has been reported that the cadets for the garrison, Nanan City, Fujian Province, Quanzhou City in the People's Liberation Army 180 Hospital in serious condition.

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Hong Kong, "Oriental Daily" reported today that the Beijing authorities and the local government that is very tense, Apart from the epidemic site strictly confidential; the city and neighboring districts also have strict screening fever patients to check all farms, suspicious poultry culling to prevent further outbreak of the epidemic.
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The report quoted PLA 180 hospital sources said, infected with the avian flu PLA officers are receiving hospital treatment. 180 Military Hospital is a total of 31 under the group army field hospital.

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Quoting reports Nanan City Center for Disease Prevention and Control Office, said infected officers from the local officials and Horticulture at the garrison.

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According to the report, although Chinese officials refused to release soldiers infected with the avian flu and the specific location of infection routes, But in the epidemic area, the news has spread and panic.

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Horticulture Magazine sticks official villagers Kwok said he had heard of a local PLA officers of contracting the avian flu, Just four days ago, a large number of Chinese Communists health departments and public security staff to villages destroyed all poultry, and thoroughly disinfected.

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Another villager surnamed Zhang said that the homes of villagers in the poultry seedlings were packed in plastic bags were disposed of staff, large poultry vaccine sleeps.

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Fujian Nan'an Garrison infected with the avian flu news gets out, China Ministry of Health spokesman Mao Qunan accept the "Oriental Daily" inquiries, the news neither confirm, can not deny it. :tiphat: http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?h....com/news/gb/china/2007/05/200705282313.shtml
 
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May 29, 10:32 AM EDT


WHO: Bird flu remains a public health threat in China as new case reported in military

By AUDRA ANG

Associated Press Writer

BEIJING (AP) -- China's latest reported case of bird flu - a soldier - has left questions about how he contracted the virus and shows that the disease remains a public health threat, the World Health Organization said Monday.

China's Health Ministry announced Saturday that the 19-year-old soldier who was hospitalized May 14 with a fever and a cough had contracted the H5N1 bird flu.

The announcement did not further identify the soldier or how he might have contracted the disease - questions the WHO said it was pressing the Health Ministry to answer.

The virus is most commonly passed from sick poultry to humans who have close contact with the infected birds. Though it is assumed that's how the soldier contracted the virus, Henk Bekedam, the WHO's representative in China, said the case was China's 24th of 25 human infections that occurred without a reported outbreak among poultry.

"That is not a good record. I have to say that is still confirming that in China the animal surveillance system needs to be strengthened because this human case is a very clear reflection that the virus is still circulating," Bekedam told reporters.

China's seeming lack of reporting of outbreaks among birds makes it difficult for experts to track the virus as it spreads and potentially check its evolution. Experts worry that if outbreaks are not controlled the virus could mutate into a form more easily transmitted between people, potentially causing a worldwide pandemic.

International experts have repeatedly complained about Chinese foot-dragging in providing information on bird flu and other emerging diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

In the latest case, the Health Ministry told WHO that the soldier was stationed in the southern province of Fujian and people who had close contact were under medical observation but showed no signs of disease, the WHO's Beijing spokeswoman, Joanna Brent, said.

One of China's two other reported human cases of bird flu this year was a farmer in Fujian. The other was a 16-year-old boy who died in March in the eastern province of Anhui - the country's 15th fatality from the disease.

Additionally, China's military is prone to secrecy, complicating cooperation with international organizations. Last year, it was disclosed that new tests on the body of a 24-year-old soldier who died in 2003 in Beijing confirmed that he succumbed to bird flu - one of the earliest deaths in a resurgent wave of bird flue that swept through the region.

The military has yet to provide a promised virus sample from that case, the WHO has said.

Two other specimens from recent human cases in China arrived in the United States last week from the Health Ministry after a lag of about a year.

Bekedam said the WHO was working with the Agriculture Ministry to get more virus samples from last year and this year.

While the WHO does not mandate sharing virus samples, they are needed to produce diagnostic tools and vaccines. The lack of cooperation, experts say, could slow efforts to track diseases and develop vaccines and other strategies to deal with them.

Bird flu has killed at least 186 people since H5N1 started ravaging poultry flocks in late 2003.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-05-29-10-32-12
 
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Google-translated from Chinese:

Contracted avian soldiers [soldier] in Nanan City
Taiwan military frontier to prevent the spread of the epidemic
May 29, 2007

[Sun newsletter] Forefront of the Taiwan Strait military barracks soldier infected with the avian flu epidemic. PRC learned from a number of channels, the Ministry of Health announced the day before the avian flu infection PLA officers [officer/soldier] who controlled garrison Nanan City, Fujian Province, Patients [the patient] are still in Quanzhou City of the People's Liberation Army 180 Hospital in a serious condition. Annan and the neighboring district is strictly screen fever patients to check farms and culling poultry to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Nanan this newspaper yesterday at the Urban Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirm that an office confirmed that infected officers from the local officials and Horticulture garrison. "We immunization out only to the sampling (Acquisition secretion samples) here do not have the detection technology." The staff, the local Center for Disease Control and Prevention is coordinating with the military, the samples were sent to Beijing for testing, "Force [the military] has its own mechanism, we do not know the specific circumstances."

Incident shocked the Chinese Central Military Commission

He said: "I do not know the specific circumstances, there are people who came investigations." He did not know how the soldiers infected, but said that so far no Nanan City people infected with the avian flu. Quanzhou, a health system official, together with last week, has admitted in Quanzhou, but "the incident sensitive" unwilling to talk about the ground. Nanan government duty officers repeatedly emphasized "not clear", but did not deny the incident. Epidemic shocked the State Council and the Central Military Commission, demanding that the local garrison and close cooperation to do the epidemic prevention and control work. It is reported that Vice Minister of Agriculture Yin Chengjie last week made a special trip to Quanzhou, guidance on prevention and control work. Quanzhou City Bureau of Agriculture's agricultural information network reported that on the 19th of this month, patients confirmed to have contracted avian flu the following day, Nanan City leadership meeting deployment of avian flu prevention and control work; 7:30 that evening, convened in charge of agriculture, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 70 officials, held an emergency meeting to convey an urgent meeting of Quanzhou spirit.

The ambiguous attitude of the Ministry of Health

21, 22, Nanan party secretary, the mayor and deputy mayor to go over the township poultry quarantine checks; 22 evening, Nanan City Party Committee convened again in the townships, departments "top leaders" and the health system, held the bird flu prevention and control conference calling to prevent animal-to-human transmission of avian flu. even human-to-human transmission occurred. Yongchun adjacent to the county, Dehua County does not have that effect last week, respectively layout of avian flu prevention and control work.

Our reporter yesterday at the Ministry of Health spokesman Mao Qunan, he said there is no updated information so the news neither confirm nor deny. When asked why the disease is not timely disclosure of the location officers to reduce panic? Mao Qunan said that at present not aware of any transmission of the avian influenza cases besides testing all sick and close contact with the officers, are not unusual circumstances, there is no spread of the disease and public panic problems.

He also said that in the past the mainland happened in a number of cases of human infection cases of avian flu there is also the seat of infected animals no obvious avian flu situation. Taking these two reasons, patients without an external location.

http://wap.on.cc/oncc/portal/news/chinaNews/Detail.do?type=tsn&id=60983
 
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Avian influenza ? situation in China - update 2
30 May 2007
The Ministry of Health in China has reported a new case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case was confirmed by the national laboratory on 23 May.
The 19-year old male soldier, serving in Fujian province, developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on 9 May and was hospitalized on 14 May.
There is no initial indication to suggest he had contact with sick birds prior to becoming unwell. Close contacts have been placed under medical observation and all remain well.
Of the 25 cases confirmed to date in China, 15 have been fatal.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_05_30/en/
 
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Avian influenza ? situation in China - update 2

30 May 2007

The Ministry of Health in China has reported a new case of human infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The case was confirmed by the national laboratory on 23 May.

The 19-year old male soldier, serving in Fujian province, developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on 9 May and was hospitalized on 14 May.

There is no initial indication to suggest he had contact with sick birds prior to becoming unwell. Close contacts have been placed under medical observation and all remain well.

Of the 25 cases confirmed to date in China, 15 have been fatal.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_05_30/en/
 
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Chinese Soldier Infected with Bird Flu Virus in Critical Condition

<TABLE class=author width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD align=left>By Feng Yiran
Epoch Times Staff
</TD><TD align=right>May 31, 2007</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>


A PLA soldier from a troop station in Nanan city has been infected with Bird flu. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)




China's Ministry of Health confirmed a 19-year-old People's Liberation Army(PLA) soldier has been infected with H5N1 bird flu virus, but did not disclose where or how the patient got infected since the patient is military personnel.
The infected soldier is from the PLA number 31 Troop Group station, which is listed as one of the top ten Troop Groups in the PLA.


According to state-owned media, the patient, surnamed Cheng, started to show symptoms of fever and coughing on May 9, and was admitted into the army hospital on May 14. He was finally confirmed to be infected with Bird Flu virus 10 days later on May 24.

According to the Hong Kong-based newspaper The Sun , the infected soldier is from a troop station in Nanan city, Fujian province. He is still in No.180 PLA Hospital in Quanzhou city.

Nanan City Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff confirmed with The Sun that the soldier was from a troop station in one of Nana's small surrounding towns, Guanqiao, and said, "The Military has its own system, so we don't know the detailed situation."

Currently, Nanan and its neighboring cities are taking measures such as checking patients with fever, inspecting poultry farms, and killing suspected poultry to prevent further outbreak of the virus.

The Sun also reported that the incident has alarmed the State Council and Central Military Commission of the Chinese communist regime. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yi Chengjie made a special trip to where the solider is currently hospitalized to coordinate the prevention measures.
Villagers from Guanqiao town said that large numbers of police and health department officials have recently come into the village to kill all poultry and they did a complete sanitization.Local villagers are now very scared of being infected by the disease. To date the village has already gone through the sanitization process twice.
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Click here to read the original article in Chinese

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-5-31/55925.html
 
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China reports soldier died of bird flu-WHO

Mon 4 Jun 2007 16:30:40 BST



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GENEVA, June 4 (Reuters) - A Chinese soldier has died from bird flu, taking the death toll from the virus in the world's most populous country to 16, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.

The United Nations health agency quoted China's Ministry of Health as saying the 19-year-old male soldier, who was serving in the southeastern province of Fujian, died on June 3.

The soldier, surnamed Cheng, was diagnosed with the H5N1 virus on May 18 and had been receiving treatment at a military hospital.

China has had 25 laboratory-confirmed cases of bird flu, but this is the first death to be reported since March. Worldwide the virus has killed 188 people out of 309 known cases since it re-emerged in Hong Kong in 2003.

Although it currently mainly affects poultry, scientists fear the H5N1 virus could mutate to become more easily passed between people and trigger a pandemic in which millions could die.

Most human cases worldwide have followed close contact with infected poultry and in China there are millions of backyard birds.

But WHO officials say that only one of the human cases in China has subsequently been linked directly to infected poultry, raising questions about how effectively the disease is being monitored amongst birds.

"This would suggest that the monitoring of H5N1 in poultry in China needs to be strengthened," said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?rpc=401&storyId=L04786219
 
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Avian influenza ? situation in China - update 3

4 June 2007

The Ministry of Health in China has informed WHO of the country?s 16th death from H5N1 avian influenza. The 19-year-old male soldier serving in Fujian province died on 3 June .

Of the 25 laboratory-confirmed cases in China, 16 have been fatal.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_06_04a/en/index.html
 
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