Saturday, December 31, 2011

China bird flu victim dies in Shenzhen city

A man who was simply diagnosed with China's very first case of chicken flu in greater than a year has died within the southern city associated with Shenzhen, health authorities say.
The 39-year-old coach driver was accepted to hospital along with pneumonia but tested positive for that bird flu computer virus.
The H5N1 chicken flu strain includes a high level associated with mortality, killing as much as 60% of humans infected by using it.
Positive tests on the dead market chicken a week ago prompted nearby Hong Kong's federal government to issue a good alert.
Hong Kong government bodies culled 17, 000 chickens following three birds were found to possess died from the actual H5N1 bird flu stress.
It also banned imports and also the sale of reside chickens for three weeks following the infected chicken carcass was available at a wholesale marketplace.
But it wasn't clear whether the chicken originated from a local plantation or was brought in.
The Shenzhen victim was not in contact along with poultry, nor went recently, China's Ministry associated with Health told Hong Kong wellness authorities.
In The fall of 2010, a 59-year-old lady was isolated within Hong Kong along with bird flu however survived.
In October 2011 the 29-year-old woman confirmed to possess contracted the virus died about the Indonesian island associated with Bali.
The Globe Health Organization states bird flu offers killed 332 individuals since 2003.
The virus may be eliminated from the majority of the 63 countries contaminated at its 2006 maximum, which saw four, 000 outbreaks around the world, but remains native to the island in Bangladesh, The far east, Egypt, India, Philippines and Vietnam.
China's Ministry associated with Agriculture warned last month how the bird flu virus appeared to exist widely within the poultry markets associated with mainland China, particularly within the south.

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