From the Washington Post: The World Health Organization announced Wednesday that two more people have died of bird flu in China, raising to five the number of those who have succumbed here to the deadly H5N1 virus. The victims were identified as a 10-year-old female student in southern China’s Guangxi province and a 35-year-old vendor […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via IOL: China is still not sharing virus samples from animal bird flu outbreaks, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, a day after Beijing announced the country’s third human death from the disease. The woman, a 41-year old factory worker from the south-eastern province of Fujian, died from the deadly H5N1 form […]
Read MoreFrom the Voice of America: The World Health Organization is warning of the danger of small, undetected bird flu outbreaks in China, following the country’s third confirmed human fatality from the virus. China announced on Thursday the latest bird flu victim was a 41-year-old woman in Fujian province who had died last week. No outbreaks […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: The World Health Organization’s regional director has called on China to change its farming practices as a long-term way to prevent outbreaks of deadly bird flu, state media reported. Shigeru Omi, director for the Western Pacific region, told the official Xinhua news agency that the common practice in China of raising different kinds […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via ABC News: The World Health Organization urged China on Friday to share samples from its bird flu outbreaks in animals and warned that human cases could be going unreported because of its weak healthcare system. Shigeru Omi, WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, said no viruses had been made available from […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters AlertNetÔºö China and the United States are cooperating on efforts to understand deadly bird flu, a major shift from Beijing’s handling of SARS, U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni said on Tuesday. “There is a definite willingness to be completely cooperative, be completely transparent and to exchange samples with the WHO […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via The International Herald Tribune: A 35-year-old man in eastern China became infected with the potentially deadly H5N1 virus after an outbreak was reported in ducks in his village, making him the country’s sixth human case of bird flu, the state news media said Friday. The self-employed vendor in Suichuan County in the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it may seek to investigate bird flu control measures in China’s northeastern Liaoning province, where the country’s fifth human case has been reported. A 31-year-old woman farmer, who has now recovered, lived in Heishan county where there had been an outbreak of bird flu […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A Jiangsu farmer who blew the whistle on a bird flu outbreak in Anhui in October has been detained by police, raising concerns that he is being punished for speaking out. Lawyer Kong Weizhao said his client, Qiao Songju, was detained on November 25 on allegations […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: With China reporting its first two human deaths from bird flu, international health specialists are warning that current tallies may greatly underestimate the problem, there and elsewhere. Scientists have long been mystified by the low number of cases in humans reported in China, which has such a severe bird flu […]
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