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**Laidback Al** · January 20, 2009, 12:59 AM

Re: China - boy 16 - Confirmed H5N1 - Guizhou Province

China announces third bird flu death this year

BEIJING (Reuters) ? A 16-year-old male student died of bird flu in central China on Tuesday, state media reported, the third death from the H5N1 virus this year.
A health official on Tuesday also confirmed the mother of a toddler infected with the avian virus from the same province had died of pneumonia weeks before, as millions of Chinese flock to poultry markets to buy food ahead of the lunar New Year holiday.
The student died in hospital in Huaihua, in central Hunan province, after developing a fever in neighboring Guizhou province.
"(Investigations) found the patient had come in contact with birds that had died from sickness before he fell ill," Xinhua news agency quoted a notice from the Hunan Health Bureau as saying. . . . .

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**Sally Furniss** · January 20, 2009, 01:20 AM

Re: China - boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province

Guizhou stained juvenile bird flu death this morning
2009-1-20

AP】 reporter learned from the Hunan Provincial Department of Health, Hunan Huaihua City recently confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases had been at 8:10 on the 20th about the death.

According to Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, January 20 -, This year, Beijing, Shandong, each one cases of human infection of highly pathogenic bird flu death.

According to the Hunan Provincial Health Department briefing, 16-year-old male with Wu, who lives in Qiandongnan Prefecture of Guizhou Province, January 8 this year in Guizhou morbidity due to illness on January 16 into Huaihua City, Hunan Province hospitalization. January 17, the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory specimens of patient testing, the results for the H5N1 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive; January 19, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention review of patient specimens for testing, the results of bird flu positive for H5N1 virus nucleic acid. Epidemiological survey found that patients had come into contact with dead poultry.

At present, relevant departments have been in close contact with all the strict medical observation, and timely to conduct a comprehensive epidemiological investigation.

Director of the Center for National Influenza舒跃龙earlier told reporters that the dissemination of human avian influenza cases in China, there may occur, but there were no signs of large-scale outbreak.

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**Sally Furniss** · January 20, 2009, 01:45 AM

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Huaihua, Hunan Province of human infection of highly pathogenic bird flu death

At 12:38 on January 20, 2009 Source: Xinhuanet comment

Reporters learned from the Hunan Provincial Department of Health, Hunan Huaihua City recently confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases had been patients at 8:10 on the 20th about the death of the Ministry of Health and Hunan province after more than clinical experts and prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases, experts conduct joint rescue the patient.

According to the Hunan Provincial Health Department briefing, 16-year-old male with Wu, who lives in Qiandongnan Prefecture of Guizhou Province, January 8 this year in Guizhou morbidity due to illness on January 16 into Huaihua City, Hunan Province hospitalization. January 17, the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory specimens of patient testing, the results for the H5N1 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive; January 19, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention review of patient specimens for testing, the results for the bird flu virus nucleic acid H5N1 positive. Epidemiological survey found that patients had come into contact with dead poultry.

On the 20th morning, an emergency meeting of Hunan Province in winter and spring high incidence of infectious disease prevention and control meeting, asking that the relevant departments and throughout the province strictly implement the responsibility system. Epidemic occurred, the local government attaches great importance to Huaihua, in accordance with the "human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza contingency plans" to take the corresponding control measures. Close contacts of all the implementation of strict medical observation, and timely to conduct a comprehensive epidemiological investigation. (Reporter Zhou Qingmei,丁文杰)

湖南省怀化人感染高致病性禽流感病例患者死亡――中新网

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**Sally Furniss** · January 20, 2009, 03:00 AM

Re: China - boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province

Hunan Huaihua of human infection with highly pathogenic bird flu death

核心提示：湖南省卫生厅证实，19日确诊的怀化市一例人感染高致病性禽流感病例患者已于20日上午8点10 分左右死亡。
Core Tip: Hunan Provincial Department of Health confirmed on the 19th confirmed case of human infection Huaihua City of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases had been patients at 8:10 on the 20th about the death.

湖南确诊一例人感染高致病性禽流感病例

Hunan confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases </center><center></center><center>

我国近期人禽流感病例分布图

China's recent human bird flu map </center><center></center><center>

防范禽流感有效措施

Effective measures to prevent avian flu </center>

新华网长沙1月20日电记者从湖南省卫生厅了解到，湖南省日前确诊的怀化市一例人感染高致病性禽流感病例患者已于20日上午8时1 0分左右死亡，此前卫生部和湖南省多名临床专家和流行性病学专家对患者进行共同抢救。

Xinhua Changsha January 20 Xinhua learned from the Hunan Provincial Department of Health, Hunan Huaihua City recently confirmed case of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases had been patients at 8:10 on the 20th about the death, after the Ministry of Health and Hunan, more than clinical experts and experts on the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases in patients with a common rescue.

据湖南省卫生厅通报，16岁的男性患者吴某家住贵州省黔东南州，今年1月8日在贵州发病，因病情加重，于1 月16日转入湖南省怀化市住院治疗。

According to the Hunan Provincial Health Department briefing, 16-year-old male with Wu, who lives in Qiandongnan Prefecture of Guizhou Province, January 8 this year in Guizhou morbidity due to illness on January 16 into Huaihua City, Hunan Province hospitalization.

1月17日，湖南省疾病预防控制中心对患者标本进行实验室检测，结果为禽流感病毒H5N1核酸阳性;1月1 9日，中国疾病预防控制中心对患者标本进行复核检测，结果为禽流感病毒H5N1核酸阳性。

January 17, the Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention laboratory specimens of patient testing, the results for the H5N1 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive; January 19, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention review of patient specimens for testing, the results for the bird flu virus nucleic acid H5N1 positive.

流行病学调查发现，患者发病前曾接触过病死家禽。

Epidemiological survey found that patients had come into contact with dead poultry.

20日上午，湖南省紧急召开冬春季高发传染病防治会议，要求全省相关部门和各地严格落实责任制。

On the 20th morning, an emergency meeting of Hunan Province in winter and spring high incidence of infectious disease prevention and control meeting, asking that the relevant departments and throughout the province strictly implement the responsibility system.

疫情发生后，怀化当地政府高度重视，已按照《人感染高致病性禽流感应急预案》采取了相应的防控措施。

Epidemic occurred, the local government attaches great importance to Huaihua, in accordance with the "human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza contingency plans" to take the corresponding control measures.

对所有密切接触者实行严密的医学观察，并及时进行全面的流行病学调查。

Close contacts of all the implementation of strict medical observation, and timely to conduct a comprehensive epidemiological investigation.

(本文来源：新华网作者：周青梅、丁文杰)

(This article Source: Xinhuanet Author: Zhou Qingmei,丁文杰)

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**AlaskaDenise** · January 20, 2009, 04:01 AM

Re: China - boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province

Student dies of bird flu in China

January 20th, 2009 - 3:43 pm ICT by IANS - Send to a friend: Changsha (China), Jan 20 (Xinhua) A 16-year-old male student died of bird flu in central China?s Hunan city Tuesday, the third death from the disease this year, health authorities reported.The student, surnamed Wu, fell ill Jan 8 in Guizhou province and was transferred to a hospital Jan 16 after his condition worsened, an official said.

Wu tested positive for the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, according to test results Monday from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

The patient had contact with poultry, the official said. People who had close contact with the patient are under medical observation.

?There is a possibility of human bird flu (spreading) in the near future, but it will not be a large-scale outbreak,? said Shu Yuelong, deputy director of the center?s Virus Control and Prevention Institute.

The fatality rate for bird flu patients is more than 60 percent. Since the symptoms are similar to the common and less deadly strains of flu, patients usually delay seeking treatment.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/student-dies-of-bird-flu-in-china_100144709.html

**AlaskaDenise** · January 20, 2009, 04:05 AM

Re: China - boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province

There is a possibility of human bird flu (spreading) in the near future, but it will not be a large-scale outbreak...

New song - H2H may happen, but not to worry - it is manageable.

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**HenryN** · January 20, 2009, 05:47 AM

Re: China - boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province

16-year-old Chinese boy dies from H5N1 bird flu

By AUDRA ANG ? 26 minutes ago
BEIJING (AP) ? A 16-year-old boy infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus died Tuesday in central China, the country's third fatality from the disease this month.
Authorities also stepped up bird flu precautions on fears the virus can survive longer in cold weather as tens of millions of people travel between cities and rural hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday, which typically includes feasts with poultry.
The student surnamed Wu, who had been in critical condition, died Tuesday morning in Huaihua, a city in Hunan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He fell ill on Jan. 8 in his hometown in the neighboring province of Guizhou and was transferred to a hospital in Huaihua on Jan. 16, when his condition worsened.
He had contact with dead poultry, the report said without giving other details.
The two other bird flu deaths were a 27-year-old woman in Shandong province in the country's east who died on Saturday and a 19-year-old woman who died in Beijing on Jan. 5.
Also Tuesday, a 2-year-old girl who had been critically ill with the H5N1 virus in Hunan was in stable condition and returned to her home in the north, China Central Television said in its noon newscast. The state television report said the girl had been to live poultry markets "many times" but did not elaborate.
The girl's mother died earlier this month from pneumonia after being exposed to poultry, a Hunan health bureau official said in an interview published Tuesday in the state-run China Business News newspaper. However, the official surnamed Peng could not confirm a link to H5N1.
Most bird flu cases stem from exposure to sick birds, but human-to-human transmission of bird flu has happened about a dozen times in the past in countries including China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Turkey. In nearly every case, transmission has occurred among blood relatives who have been in close contact, and the virus has not spread into the wider community.
"Whenever there is a case of humans contracting the H5N1 virus, there is a concern," said Nyka Alexander, a Beijing-based spokeswoman for the World Health Organization. "As long as H5N1 continues to circulate in poultry, there is the risk of human infection. This is why it is so important to treat each case seriously."
While the disease remains hard for humans to catch, scientists have warned if outbreaks among poultry are not controlled, the virus may mutate into a form more easily passed between people. A new influenza virus could quickly turn into a pandemic, infecting millions of people with no immunity.
No sick poultry has been found in the areas where the four people fell ill this year, despite officials inspecting hundreds of thousands of birds. This could mean that surveillance needs to be tightened or that poultry may be carrying the virus but not showing symptoms or falling sick. Vaccinations also reduce the amount of virus circulating, but low levels of H5N1 may still be causing outbreaks ? without the obvious signs of dying birds.
Until this month, no new human cases had been reported in China since February 2007. Shu Yuelong, a flu expert at China's National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said a spike in infections was likely because the H5N1 virus is more active in lower temperatures.
The cases come as an estimated 188 million people travel between cities and rural hometowns for Lunar New Year, the country's biggest holiday, which begins next week.
Celebratory family meals often include dishes made from freshly slaughtered chicken and duck feature, meaning a potentially greater risk of exposure to sick birds as people shop in markets for poultry or when the birds are transported to be sold.
The Agriculture Ministry has ordered tighter monitoring of disease outbreaks at all levels and proper vaccination of all poultry. It would also increase checks across the country and at borders.
According to the WHO, bird flu has killed 249 people worldwide since 2003. The tally does not include Tuesday's death in China, where a total of 34 infections have been reported.

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**sharon sanders** · January 21, 2009, 03:55 PM

Re: China Human Cases Jan 21 + & Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case

For the 2 year old (possible cluster case) from Human, please see this thread:

China: Girl, 2, Confirmed H5N1 Case from Hunan Province, hospitalized in Shanxi - FluTrackers News and Information

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91522

For the 27 year old woman case from Shandong, please see this thread:

China - Woman, 27, confirmed death H5N1 - Shandong - FluTrackers News and Information

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91617

For the 19 year old woman from Bejing, please see this thread:

China: Woman, 19, Confirmed H5N1 Death - Contacts Monitored - FluTrackers News and Information

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90425

For general China news and animal/poultry/wild birds outbreaks, please see this thread:

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91832

**Sally Furniss** · January 21, 2009, 04:53 PM

Re: China Human Cases Jan 21 + & Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case

Guizhou home of the deceased bird culled poultry
2009-1-22

On the 20th and was informed that the membership of Guizhou bird flu patients who died in Hunan Province, the hometown of the deceased Qiandongnan Prefecture of Guizhou Province in Liping County high屯镇eight Zhou Village, culling all poultry, the villagers from the village are not allowed. 【Reporter on the 21st郭朝阳Guiyang Xinhua】

High屯镇said of the eight boat blockade measures taken by the village, the villagers were not allowed out of the village recently. In this case before the emergence of the village was part of the poultry disease situation, but no attention. To January 20, the sick, regardless of all poultry not ill, have all been culled.屯镇high incidence of points within the region has also been culling chickens and ducks. As the prevention and control measures are effective, patients with the location of the masses as well as the mood of the masses around the Jeonju stability, does not appear abnormal.

Eight villagers Zhou said that the deceased prior to the onset of eating at home is not cooked chickens and ducks. Qiandongnan Prefecture has dispatched health, agriculture, animal husbandry and other departments as well as the counties to prevent and control centers and related experts, rushed to the Liping county, to carry out investigations and medical observation.

Lin asked the governor of Guizhou, Guizhou Province Health Department prepared in accordance with the requirements of the disposal of the Ministry of Health, which announced to the public of the epidemic to the public, it is necessary to conscientiously carry out the source of the disease investigation, prevention and control to take effective measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic.

Old Carey hole professional wholesale market of live birds is Qiandongnan Prefecture's largest live poultry wholesale markets, wholesale sales of live chickens and ducks normal. Said the market, the wholesale poultry market from across the country and all regions of Qiandongnan Prefecture, market transactions every day there are tens of thousands of chickens and ducks, the sale of normal and not be affected. 18, Carey received a livestock market on the strengthening of fisheries sector, such as epidemics of highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control of the emergency notice, 24 hours on the market carry out stringent measures to prevent and control and monitoring.

Buy red rooster is过大年Carey local people had the custom of the Spring Festival. Carey II in shopping malls, stalls selling red rooster increasing red rooster came to the purchase of the New Year still a lot of people.

Nanchang to prevent human avian influenza

【Reporter into the 21st Xinhua】 Jiankang Nanchang Nanchang City Health Bureau issued an emergency circular calling on the medical and health departments and units to strengthen the human avian influenza prevention and control work. The circular called for disease prevention and control institutions at all levels of the epidemic Mobile Brigade 24-hour duty, fever of suspicious cases of pneumonia or fever coughing remain highly vigilant and do a good job in cases of pneumonia of unknown causes screening work. Nanchang Nanchang City Health Bureau also requested the ninth hospitals, county District People's Hospital of Infectious Diseases in advance to do a good job related to the patients admitted to ward, technology, materials, equipment ready.

Lu patients with non-contact birds

Ta Kung Pao inquiry】【Xinhua on the 21st from Shandong Provincial Health Department learned about the latest situation arising from infection of the avian flu virus in 17 patients with the death of Zhang Jinan no clear history of exposure to poultry.

It is understood that the recent incidents in the Mainland of China 4 cases of human bird flu cases, two cases (Beijing, Shanxi Province) has a clear history of exposure to live poultry markets, one cases (Hunan) there is a history of exposure to poultry, which took place in Shandong cases, according to the survey do not have a clear history of exposure to poultry.

To experts, around the world have occurred in cases of human avian influenza, 1 / 4-1 / 3 of the cases there is no clear source of infection. Recently diagnosed four cases of this occurred with the previous cases of human avian influenza similar epidemiological characteristics.

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**Rwilmer** · January 21, 2009, 05:21 PM

Re: China Human Cases Jan 21 + & Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case

Does this mean eight people are suspected?

**sharon sanders** · January 21, 2009, 05:27 PM

Re: China Human Cases Jan 21 + & Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case

Originally posted by Rwilmer View Post

Does this mean eight people are suspected?

It is typical to monitor people who have been in close proximity to infected poultry.

**HenryN** · January 21, 2009, 05:28 PM

Re: China Human Cases Jan 21 + & Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case

AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (12): CHINA (GUIZHOU)
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Date: Wed 21 Jan 2009
Source: Associated Press report [edited]
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China's top health official on Tuesday [20 Jan 2009] ordered stronger
measures to prevent the spread of bird flu, as the country announced
its 3rd fatality from the H5N1 [avian influenza] virus in a month.

The World Health Organization, meanwhile, said the cases were a
"perfectly normal occurrence" during colder months. Chinese Health
Minister Chen Zhu said health departments across the nation need to
pay "great attention" to stepping up efforts to stop the disease
before it sickens more people, especially at the peak of the Lunar
New Year travel rush, when tens of millions of people were making
their way home to rural areas. "It is the high season for human cases
of bird flu. There is a severe need for the prevention of more
cases," Chen said in a conference call to ministry officials. He said
health officials need to be made fully aware of the risk and harm
associated with bird flu, increase monitoring, strengthen clinical
diagnoses and treatment, and report outbreaks in a timely manner.

His call to action came as state media announced the death of a
16-year-old student in Hunan province in central China. The boy had
been in critical condition and died Tuesday [20 Jan 2009] morning,
the official Xinhua News Agency said. He fell ill on 8 Jan 2009 in
his hometown in the neighboring province of Guizhou and was
transferred to a hospital in Huaihua, a city in Hunan, on 16 Jan
2009, when his condition worsened. He had contact with dead poultry,
the report said without giving other details.

The 2 other bird flu deaths were a 27-year-old woman in Shandong
province in the country's east who died on Saturday [17 Jan 2009] and
a 19-year-old woman who died in Beijing on 5 Jan 2009.

Until this month [January 2009], no new human infections had been
reported in China since February 2007 [This should read 2008. -
Mod.CP]. Peter Cordingley, the WHO's Asia spokesman, said the latest
cases were a "perfectly predictable event. The virus always starts to
get active this time of year," he said. According to the WHO, bird
flu has killed 249 people worldwide since 2003. The tally does not
include Tuesday's [20 Jan 2009] death in China, where a total of 34
infections have been reported.

The disease remains hard for humans to catch, but scientists have
warned if outbreaks among poultry are not controlled, the virus may
mutate into a form more easily passed between people, potentially
sparking a pandemic.

[Byline: Andrea Ang]

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Communicated by:
ProMED-mail Rapporteur Mary Marshall

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Date: Wed 21 Jan 2009
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China sought Wednesday [21 Jan 2009] to allay fears over the threat
of a bird flu pandemic after 3 people died from the disease this
month [January 2009] and a 4th person remained critically ill. There
was no evidence that the potential for an outbreak of the disease was
on the rise, China's health ministry said in a statement faxed to
AFP. "The 4 cases separately came from different provinces; there is
no epidemiological connection between them; they are sporadic cases,"
the ministry said.

A 16-year-old boy died on Tuesday [20 Jan 2009] from the H5N1 strain
of avian influenza in the central province of Hunan [See above,
infection contracted in Guizhou province.].

A 27-year-old woman also succumbed to the disease on Saturday [17 Jan
2009] in the eastern province of Shandong, while the 1st fatality
occurred on 5 Jan 2009 when a 19-year-old woman died in Beijing.

A 2-year-old girl, meanwhile, is still critically ill in the northern
province of Shanxi, the health ministry said. The toddler's mother
died this month [January 2009] of severe pneumonia, sparking concern
that she may actually have had bird flu and passed it on to her
daughter. The health ministry said it was unable to do tests to
confirm whether the mother had died of avian influenza, as no samples
were collected when she passed away. But it added it was unlikely the
girl caught bird flu from her mother. "We cannot be sure that the
patient's mother had bird flu, and investigations show the patient
had been exposed to live poultry markets," the statement said.
"Therefore, we believe the patient's infection most likely came from
a live poultry market or another unknown exposure."

China is considered one of the nations most at risk from bird flu
epidemics because it has the world's largest poultry population, and
many chickens in rural areas are kept close to humans.

The World Health Organisation says about 250 people have died from
bird flu worldwide since 2003. The total number of reported deaths in
China since the virus re-emerged in 2003 now stands at 23.

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[The 4 human cases of avian influenza reported during the 1st 3 weeks
of January 2009, the 1st in China since February 2008, occurred in 4
different provinces and appear to be unconnected. In all cases, there
is evidence of contact with diseased poultry. There is no evidence of
human-to-human transmission of infection from affected individuals to
their contacts or care givers. The question of whether the 2-year-old
child may have contracted infection from her mother remains
unresolved, since no clinical samples from the mother are available.

The death of the 16-year-old boy reported above is the 23rd fatality
among the 34 cases of avian A/H5N1 virus infection recorded in China.
Three of the 4 cases identified in the 1st weeks of 2009 have died,
and the 4th remains in critical condition.

A map of the provinces of China is available at
<http://www.sacu.org/provmap.html>, and the HealthMap/ProMED-mail
interactive map of China is available at
<http://healthmap.org/promed/en?v=36.5,103.9,4>. - Mod.CP]

[see also:
Avian influenza, human (11): China, WHO Update 20090119.0240
Avian influenza, human (10): China (GZ), SD) 20090119.0230
Avian influenza, human (08): China (HN) 20090118.0217
Avian influenza, human (03): China (Beijing), WHO 20090107.0064
Avian influenza, human (01): China (Beijing) 20090106.0047
2008
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Avian influenza, human (83): H9N2, China (Guangdong) 20081230.4111
Avian influenza, human (43): China, Egypt WHO 20080408.1292
Avian influenza, human (31): China, Egypt, Viet Nam, WHO 20080226.0784
Avian influenza, human (30): China, WHO 20080225.0758
Avian influenza, human (29): China, Indonesia, Viet Nam, WHO 20080221.0710
Avian influenza, human (28): China (Hunan) 20080218.0656
Avian influenza, human (05): China, Pakistan 20080110.0134]
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**Rwilmer** · January 21, 2009, 05:31 PM

Re: China Human Cases Jan 21 + & Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case

does it say if any of the people have symptoms?

Originally posted by Florida1 View Post

It is typical to monitor people who have been in close proximity to infected poultry.

**HenryN** · January 21, 2009, 05:37 PM

Re: China Human Cases Jan 21 + & Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case

Originally posted by niman View Post

AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (12): CHINA (GUIZHOU)
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[The 4 human cases of avian influenza reported during the 1st 3 weeks
of January 2009, the 1st in China since February 2008, occurred in 4
different provinces and appear to be unconnected. In all cases, there
is evidence of contact with diseased poultry. There is no evidence of
human-to-human transmission of infection from affected individuals to
their contacts or care givers. The question of whether the 2-year-old
child may have contracted infection from her mother remains
unresolved, since no clinical samples from the mother are available.

<http://healthmap.org/promed/en?v=36.5,103.9,4>. - Mod.CP]

CP has a rather curious definition of "evidence".

**sharon sanders** · January 21, 2009, 05:41 PM

Re: China Human Cases Jan 21 + & Boy 16, Confirmed H5N1, Died - Guizhou Province Case

The Ministry of Health announced an " emergency fat" on January 19th which called for strengthening the classification of pneumonia cases based on May 2007 guidelines -

The Ministry of Health on the issuance of the "National unexplained pneumonia cases of monitoring, investigation and management program," the notice - FluTrackers News and Information

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