From Xinhua via Shanghai Daily: China’s southern city of Guangzhou has reported massive deaths of ducks in a village which are suspected to be a bird flu outbreak, according to information posted on the Website of the Ministry of Agriculture. On September 5, farmers in Sixian village, Xinzao Township in the Panyu district of Guangzhou […]
Read MoreFrom 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 Organization (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 […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via International Herald Tribune: A 19-year-old Chinese soldier has been hospitalized with the H5N1 bird flu strain, the Health Ministry announced Saturday. The soldier, identified only by the surname Cheng, was hospitalized May 14, five days after suffering a fever and cough, the ministry said on its Web site. It said he was […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via The Courier-Mail: China has confirmed an outbreak of the H5N1 birdflu virus among poultry in the central province of Hunan, but no cases of human infection in the area hit. The outbreak was in a village near Yiyang city in Hunan and killed 11,172 birds, a Ministry of Agriculture spokesman told Xinhua […]
Read MoreFrom All Headline News: In an attempt to help the World Health Organization (WHO) produce new vaccines for the deadly disease, China is reportedly working to send virus samples from recent human bird flu cases. Earlier this week, the agency had complained that it had not received any for over a year. The WHO had […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: A teenager in Anhui Province has become China’s latest bird flu fatality, bringing the country’s death toll from the virus to 15, the Ministry of Health said yesterday. The 16-year-boy, a Bengbu City student surnamed Wu, died on Tuesday after 10 days of hospital treatment, a spokesman for the Anhui provincial health […]
Read MoreFrom AP: China reported a new human case of bird flu on Thursday, and the World Health Organization disputed Indonesia’s claim that the two were close to resolving a dispute over sharing virus samples that could be used to develop a commercial vaccine. The human infection in China occurred in the coastal province of Fujian, […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily: No outbreaks of bird flu among poultry have been reported in China for 127 straight days since Sept. 20 last year, said Minister of Agriculture Sun Zhengcai in Beijing on Sunday. The record should be ascribed to the efforts the government andagricultural departments had made to prevent epidemics among animals, Sun said. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A 37-year-old farmer in eastern China has been confirmed to have contracted the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the country’s first human case of avian influenza in months, the Health News said on Wednesday. The country has reported a total of 22 human cases of bird flu, including 14 fatalities, since 2003. In […]
Read MoreFrom The China Blog: Avian influenza has returned to Hong Kong, but hardly anyone here seems panicked. In late 2005 and early 2006, when the disease killed 13 people on the mainland and more than a dozen infected birds were found in Hong Kong, people followed the news with dread. Now it barely inspires a […]
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