Chinese man who contracted bird flu has recovered
(AP)
2 August 2006
BEIJING - A man in southern China who contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu has recovered after a month and a half, and was discharged from hospital on Wednesday, state media said.
The 31-year-old truck driver from Shenzhen in Guangdong province ?had recovered sufficiently? to be discharged after being treated for 50 days, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the city?s municipal health department.
The department said health workers will continue to monitor his condition, Xinhua reported.
On June 15, Chinese authorities confirmed that the man had been infected by the virus and was in a critical condition.
When the man was first admitted, many of his internal organs had ?showed signs of failure,? and his lungs were severely infected, Xinhua quoted Donghu Hospital chief Zhou Boping as saying. The report did not elaborate.
Xinhua said the man had visited a local market several times where live poultry was sold before developing a fever and pneumonia on June 3.
The man is the latest in China?s 19 reported human bird flu infections. Twelve people have died.
Most human infections have been attributed to close contact with infected birds and carcasses, but experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a global pandemic. So far, at least 134 people have died worldwide since the disease began spreading in Asia in late 2003.
(AP)
2 August 2006
BEIJING - A man in southern China who contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu has recovered after a month and a half, and was discharged from hospital on Wednesday, state media said.
The 31-year-old truck driver from Shenzhen in Guangdong province ?had recovered sufficiently? to be discharged after being treated for 50 days, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing the city?s municipal health department.
The department said health workers will continue to monitor his condition, Xinhua reported.
On June 15, Chinese authorities confirmed that the man had been infected by the virus and was in a critical condition.
When the man was first admitted, many of his internal organs had ?showed signs of failure,? and his lungs were severely infected, Xinhua quoted Donghu Hospital chief Zhou Boping as saying. The report did not elaborate.
Xinhua said the man had visited a local market several times where live poultry was sold before developing a fever and pneumonia on June 3.
The man is the latest in China?s 19 reported human bird flu infections. Twelve people have died.
Most human infections have been attributed to close contact with infected birds and carcasses, but experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a global pandemic. So far, at least 134 people have died worldwide since the disease began spreading in Asia in late 2003.
