China announced on Monday its tenth official human case of bird flu infection after a 29-year old woman from the west of the country was diagnosed with the H5N1 virus.
A notice on the health ministry’s Web site said the woman ran a shop in a farmgoods market in Jinhua town in Sichuan Province. Jinhua lies close to the province capital, Chengdu.
She fell ill on January12 and is now in a critical condition in a Sichuan hospital.