China confirms that a man from Guangxi has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus. From Voice of America: China’s Health Ministry says a 41-year-old man from southern China has died of bird flu, the country’s second death...
Read MoreAFP follows up on the reported bird flu outbreak in Tibet, as a 22-year-old man died from the disease in Hunan: Chinese authorities on Tuesday reported a fresh bird flu outbreak among poultry in Tibet, a day after confirming a...
Read MoreThe Chinese government, via Xinhua, has confirmed the 18th fatality from bird flu, a 22-year-old man surnamed Li from Hunan. AFP reports: China’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said his specimens tested positive...
Read MoreFrom AFP: A man in China contracted bird flu because he was in close contact with his infected son, although the virus had not mutated into a form that is highly contagious among humans, authorities said Thursday. A 52-year-old man, identified only by his surname Lu, was hospitalised with the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: The latest bird flu patient was discharged from an unidentified hospital on Dec. 26 in the eastern province of Jiangsu, local health authorities said. After being treated for about 20 days, the patient, surnamed Lu, 52, had recovered sufficiently to leave under the care of family members, the Jiangsu Provincial Health Department said. […]
Read MoreFrom AFP: China has made good progress in developing a human vaccine against the deadly bird flu virus, with a second phase of tests showing it to be safe and effective, state press reported Monday. About 400 people aged between 18 and 60 who were given the vaccine between September and November this year had […]
Read MoreFrom The Times of India: China has said the possibilities of bird flu outbreaks in many parts of the country is “very high” in the winter and spring despite efforts to contain the disease. Ministry of Agriculture was “not optimistic” about the situation as there had been cases of poultry infection in many areas despite […]
Read MoreThe report says that there hasn’t been any evidence yet that the father had been infected by his son. But it was possible, from AP via MSNBC: The father of a Chinese man who died of bird flu has also been infected with the H5N1 virus that causes the disease, the World Health Organization reported, […]
Read MoreFrom The Washington Post: China scrambled to respond Tuesday to an outbreak of bird flu among ducks in the southern city of Guangzhou. But as officials sought to reassure the public, there were signs that China was reluctant to release details about a possible health threat. The outbreak in Guangzhou’s Panyu district is the first […]
Read MoreA new outbreak of bird flu in Guangzhou has been confirmed by China’s agricultural ministry after thousands of ducks died in a village days ago. From AFP: The ministry said Saturday that 9,830 ducks had died in a village outside the southern city of Guangzhou, not far from the border with Hong Kong, between September […]
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