H5N1 News: China closes all live poultry markets in Beijing
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
Stepping up its fight against bird flu, China said Monday it has killed 6 million birds around its latest outbreak of the virus and ordered the immediate closure of all 168 live poultry markets in Beijing.Also: WHO Avian influenza – Situation in Indonesia – Update 38:
Meanwhile, investigations were continuing into whether three people — including a 12-year-old girl who died — were the nation’s first known human cases of the disease that has killed at least 62 people elsewhere in Asia since 2003.
The Ministry of Health in Indonesia has confirmed two additional cases of human infection with H5N1 avian influenza. The first newly confirmed case was a 19-year-old woman from Tangerang, near Jakarta, who developed symptoms on 19 October, was admitted to hospital on 26 October, and died on 28 October.
The second case is her 8-year-old brother. He developed symptoms on 25 October and remains hospitalized in good condition.
Field investigation has found evidence of sick and dying chickens in the residential area of the 8-year-old. His 19-year-old sister is known to have visited this area. Final results from an ongoing Ministry of Agriculture investigation are pending.
To date, Indonesia has confirmed 9 cases of human H5N1 infection of which 5 have been fatal.
posted by Fergie @ 11/07/2005 08:48:00 AM
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