From BBC News (link): A dead wild goose in north-west China has tested positive for bird flu, raising new fears about transmission along migration routes. China’s national bird flu laboratory confirmed over the weekend that the goose had tested positive for H5N1, the official news agency Xinhua said. The bird was found in Qinghai province, […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily via Xinhua News Agency (link): A 21-year-old man in central China’s Hubei Province has been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus and is in a critical condition, the Ministry of Health reported yesterday. The man, surnamed Lai, is a migrant worker in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province. He showed symptoms […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Vietnam has detected bird flu on three farms near the Chinese border, the second such finding in the past few days, an animal health official said on Saturday. Health workers slaughtered 157 chickens and ducks after farmers said 30 birds died on March 19 on three farms in Cao Bang province, said […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Spokesperson Jiao Yang of Shanghai Municipal Government said during a regular briefing on March 29 that there is no new discovered human infection of H5N1 strain of bird flu, after a death on March 21 in the city who was later determined and reported as […]
Read MoreFrom InformationWeek (link): Over 50 government, academic, and industry experts attended demonstrations in Beijing this week, a vendor announced, and officials there are now seeking cost details to implement an RFID tracking program. Smart-tek Solutions announced the completion of an RFID demonstration for tracking and containing the virus in China while other technologies are being […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABC News Online (link): A Chinese girl in eastern Zhejiang province and a woman farmer in neighbouring Anhui province have been infected with bird flu, Xinhua news agency has cited the Ministry of Health as saying. The woman farmer, who was diagnosed on February 11 with symptoms of fever and pneumonia, had […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: A chicken illegally smuggled across the border from mainland China has died here of bird flu, Hong Kong officials announced late today in a case that raises new questions about whether Chinese provincial officials are concealing the true extent of the disease. A villager living half a kilometer from the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: 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 […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: China’s fight against the avian/human pandemic influenza is facing a relatively big financial gap, said China’s Chief Veterinary Jia Youling here Tuesday. Jia made the remarks at a conference in Beijing aimed to collect global financial resources to stop the disease from further spreading among birds and from birds to humans. As one […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax China: In the wake of further bird flu outbreaks in China, U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said yesterday in Shanghai that global cooperation is needed to control the impact of a possible avian flu pandemic. “When you are thirsty it is too late to dig the well,” Mineta said quoting an old Chinese […]
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