Monday, November 14, 2005

H5N1 News: China probes another human bird flu case

A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

China is probing a possible human case of bird flu in a northeastern province, the World Health Organization said on Monday, the second area of the country to make such a precautionary diagnosis.

The Liaoning provincial government, which has already culled some 10 million birds, said last week that preliminary tests had ruled out avian influenza in humans, though one chicken worker was suffering from pneumonia of an unknown cause.

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