H5N1 News: Bird flu on migration path
An AP newswire article, via CNN, reports that:
A bird flu outbreak in northern China that sparked the culling of about 370,000 birds lies along a migration route that spans from East Asia to Australia, a media report said Sunday, as officials continued killing thousands of birds east of Beijing.
China, meanwhile, said Sunday it can't rule out bird flu in the death of a 12-year-old girl last month and has called on the World Health Organization to help with diagnosis.
Three people living in central China's Hunan province came down with pneumonia last month following an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu among local poultry, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Of those, a 12-year-old girl died. Her nine-year-old brother and a 36-year-old school teacher recovered from the illness. Chinese officials initially said that the girl and her brother had tested negative for the virus.
posted by Fergie @ 11/06/2005 12:11:00 PM
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