China: Woman, 19, Confirmed H5N1 Death - Contacts Monitored
China: death of a woman apparently affected by avian flu
BEIJING, 6 January 2009 (AFP) - Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 8:39 -
A Chinese woman has died in Beijing apparently affected by bird flu, announced Tuesday the agency China News, quoting the municipal health authorities.
Chine: décès d'une femme apparemment atteinte de la grippe aviaire
PEKIN, 6 jan 2009 (AFP) - mardi 06 janvier 2009 - 8h39 - Une Chinoise est décédée à Pékin apparemment atteinte de la grippe aviaire, a annoncé mardi l'agence Chine Nouvelle, citant les autorités sanitaires municipales.
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China says "suspected" bird flu patient dies -Xinhua
06 Jan 2009
Source: Reuters
BEIJING, Jan 6 (Reuters) - A woman suspected of carrying bird flu has died in Beijing, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the local health bureau.
The woman died on Monday. Her age was not known, Xinhua said. There were no other details.
A five-year-old Vietnamese girl who ate poultry has been infected with bird flu, the first human case reported in the country this year, Vietnam's state-run television said on Tuesday.
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China says "suspected" bird flu patient dies
06 Jan 2009 08:12:49 GMT
Source: Reuters
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BEIJING, Jan 6 (Reuters) - A woman suspected of being infected with bird flu has died in Beijing, the local health bureau said on Tuesday of what would be the first bird flu death in the country in almost a year.
The woman died on Monday. Her age was not known, Xinhua news agency said. There were no other details.
"The report is true, but there are no details so far," said Zhang Jianshu, a spokesman with the publicity office of the Beijing Health Bureau, told Reuters by telephone.
The World Health Organisation's China office was not immediately able to provide comment.
Since the H5N1 virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003, it has killed more than 200 people in a dozen countries, according to the World Health Organisation.
Experts fear the constantly mutating virus could change into a form easily transmitted from person to person and potentially kill millions of people worldwide.
The last known reported fatality in China was in February last year when a 44-year-old woman died in the southern province of Guangdong.
A five-year-old has been infected with bird flu in neighbouring Vietnam, the first human case reported in the country this year, Vietnam's state-run television said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Ian Ransom and Yu Le; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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Beijing Reports Fatality in Suspected Bird-Flu Case (Update1)
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By Stephanie Wong
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Beijing, one of the most severely infected cities during the 2003 global SARS epidemic, has reported a possible death from avian flu, as an unusually cold winter saps resistance in the Chinese capital.
Huang Yanqing, suspected to have been infected with bird flu, died at 7:20 a.m. yesterday in a Beijing hospital, the state-owned Xinhua News Agency reported today on its English service, citing the local health bureau. The news service didn’t provide further details.
Health and agricultural authorities culled 377,000 poultry in eastern China’s Jiangsu province in December after finding the H5N1 strain of the bird-flu virus in chickens in that area. Areas where the poultry were raised were disinfected, other birds were placed under quarantine, and the transport of poultry was restricted.
Contact with migratory birds carrying the virus is one possible cause of infection in poultry. The announcement comes after dead chickens in Hong Kong tested positive for the H5N1 strain last month and India culled more than 250,000 birds in its northeast to contain an outbreak.
At least 387 people in 15 countries have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of the avian-flu virus since 2003, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization. Almost two of every three cases were fatal.
China has had 30 bird-flu cases in humans and 20 deaths since December 2003, according to WHO. A 24 year-old-man who died in Beijing in 2003 was initially thought to have died from the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Subsequent laboratory tests confirmed he had died from the avian flu, making him the first fatality in the Chinese capital from the disease.
To contact the reporter on this story: Stephanie Wong in Shanghai at swong139@bloomberg.net Last Updated: January 6, 2009 03:14 EST
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"Nurse had fever"
Suspected bird flu patient in Beijing dies
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2009-01-06 16:27
A suspected bird flu patient in Beijing has died, local health bureau said Tuesday.
The woman named Huang Yanqing died at 7:20 a.m. Monday. Her age is not known yet.
Huang, a native of east China's Fujian Province, bought nine ducks at a market in Beijing's neighboring Hebei Province on Dec. 19 along with two town fellows. She cleaned the ducks' internal organs, according to the Beijing Health Bureau.
The bureau said 116 people had been in close contact with the patient. One nurse who had been in contact with the patient suffered from fever. The nurse has recovered.
Beijing has reported the case to the World Health Organization, and health authorities of China's Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions.
An emergency meeting was convened in Beijing on Monday evening to handle the bird flu case.
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Suspected bird flu patient in Beijing dies
BEIJING, Jan. 6 (PNA/Xinhua) -- A suspected bird flu patient in Beijing has died, local health bureau said Tuesday.
The woman named Huang Yanqing died at 7:20 a.m. Monday. Her age is not known yet.
Huang, a native of east China's Fujian Province, bought nine ducks at a market in Beijing's neighboring Hebei Province on Dec. 19 along with two town fellows. She cleaned the ducks' internal organs, according to the Beijing Health Bureau. She gave three ducks to her father, uncle and a friend and kept the other six ducks.
The bureau said 116 people, including the patient's 14 family members and neighbor and 102 medical workers, had been in close contact with the patient. One nurse who had been in contact with the patient suffered from fever. The nurse has recovered.
Beijing has reported the case to the World Health Organization, and health authorities of China's Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions.
An emergency meeting was convened in Beijing on Monday evening to handle the bird flu case.
Beijing has started bird flu prevention and control measures, including disinfecting and isolating the patient's house and wards she had used and closely monitoring further cases by medical institutions at all levels. Last month, a baby girl was diagnosed as having the H9N2 bird flu strain and received treatment in a Hong Kong hospital. (PNA/Xinhua)
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China says suspected bird flu patient dies
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 BEIJING: Chinese state media has reported that a suspected bird flu patient has died in a Beijing hospital.
The official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that Huang Yanqing died Monday. It did not give her age.
It said Huang bought and cleaned nine ducks on Dec. 19 at a market in Hebei province, which borders Beijing.
Xinhua quoted the Beijing Health Bureau as saying 116 people had been in close contact with Huang. One nurse suffered from fever but has since recovered, it said.
Beijing reported the case to the World Health Organization, which had no immediate reply Tuesday.
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Beijing suspected human bird flu deaths
2009-01-06
Beijing on the 5th found a case of pneumonia cases of unknown causes, after all rescue measuresproved ineffectual, at 7:20 the day of death.
北京市已启动《人感染高致病性禽流感应急预案》，全面部署，加强防控工作。
Beijinghas started "of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenzacontingency plans," a comprehensive plan to strengthen the prevention and control work.
北京市卫生局透露，不明原因肺炎患者黄燕清，为福建省莆田市人。
Beijing Municipal Health Bureau revealed that patients with unexplained pneumonia Huang Yan-qing, Putian City, Fujian Province who for.
2008年2月来京后，住北京市朝阳区三间房乡东村。
In February 2008 to Beijing after living in Beijing Chaoyang District Rural Housing Estate 3.
December 19, and Chae陈建皇fellow patients in Hebei Province秦宫Yanjiao market live poultry stall to buy a nine ducks, slaughtered at the scene after the back, the patient cleaned duck offal.
Beijing Municipal Health Bureau has now identified 116 close contacts, including family members and neighbors, 14, possession Zhuang hospital medical staff, 11 were潞河hospital medical staff 78 people, Beijing Chest Hospital 13.
除管庄医院1名护士出现过发热外（现已恢复正常），其余人员均未见异常临床表现。
In addition to possession of Zhuang hospital nurses had a fever (which is now back to normal), the rest were no abnormal clinical manifestations.
Beijing Health Bureau in the afternoon on the 5th to the Beijing Municipal Agriculture Bureau reported a case of suspected human bird flu diagnosis and prevention and control of the situation, and to the World Health Organization and the Hong Kong and Macao informed of relevant information, 20, also held the same day in Beijing City bird flu prevention and control work will be deployed.
According to the silver, Beijing has started "of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza contingency plans," the full deployment, there are areas to deal with and do a good job at the scene epidemiological investigation of infectious diseases and respiratory symptoms of pro-active monitoring of early warning work in close contact with the implementation of the Category management; do a good job on the patients home, ward terminal disinfection and epidemic (point) is the work of disinfection and isolation; to strengthen the diagnosis of respiratory diseases health care workers, reporting and protection training; medical and health institutions at all levels were zero cases of bird flu reporting system; At the same time to strengthen the management of nosocomial infection control and laboratory bio-safety supervision and inspection work. http://74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=...i26bv52j6aOm_w
Beijing Reports Fatality in Suspected Bird-Flu Case (Update2)
By Stephanie Wong Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) --
Beijing, the most severely infected city during the 2003 global SARS epidemic, has reported a possible death from avian flu, as an unusually cold winter saps resistance in the Chinese capital.
Huang Yanqing, who died at 7:20 a.m. yesterday in a Beijing hospital, handled the innards of nine ducks bought from a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, state-owned Xinhua News Agency said today in its English service.
She had contact with 116 people, Xinhua said, citing the local health bureau.
Health and agricultural authorities culled 377,000 poultry in eastern China’s Jiangsu province in December after finding the H5N1 strain of the bird-flu virus in chickens. Areas where the poultry were raised had been disinfected, other birds were placed under quarantine, while the transport of poultry was restricted.
Contact with migratory birds carrying the virus is one possible cause of infection in poultry. Dead chickens in Hong Kong tested positive for the H5N1 strain last month and India culled more than 250,000 birds in its northeastern region to contain an outbreak.
At least 387 people in 15 countries have been infected with the H5N1 strain of the avian-flu virus since 2003, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization. Almost two of every three cases were fatal.
China’s Bird Flu
China has had 30 bird-flu cases in humans and 20 deaths since December 2003, according to WHO. A 24 year-old-man who died in Beijing in 2003 was initially thought to have died from the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Subsequent laboratory tests confirmed he had died from the avian flu, making him the first fatality in the Chinese capital from the disease.
A nurse recovered from the fever she’d developed after coming in contact with the deceased woman, the news service reported.
China’s government was criticized by the WHO for its slow response to the 2003 SARS outbreak, which infected 8,098 people globally, killing 774, almost a third of the cases in the Chinese capital. President Hu Jintao fired health minister Zhang Wenkang and Beijing mayor Meng Xuenong in 2003, after admitting that the city had covered up the number of SARS cases in the city.
Beijing’s health authorities have already reported the latest suspected bird-flu fatality to the WHO, Xinhua said today.
An emergency meeting was convened yesterday in Beijing to handle the bird-flu case, Xinhua said without elaborating.
To contact the reporter on this story:
Stephanie Wong in Shanghai at swong139@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: January 6, 2009 03:39 EST
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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health received notification from the Ministry of Health (MoH) today (January 6) concerning a confirmed human case of avian influenza H5N1 in Beijing.
A CHP spokesman said the patient was a 19-year-old woman living in a suburb of Beijing.
She developed symptoms on December 24 and passed away on January 5.
Laboratory tests on the patient's specimen by the Chinese Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention yielded positive for H5N1.
Investigations revealed that she had contact with poultry before the onset of symptoms.
The CHP is maintaining close liaison with the MoH to obtain more information on the case.
The spokesman reminded members of the public to remain vigilant against avian influenza infection and to observe the following measures:
* Avoid direct contact with poultry and birds or their droppings;
if contact has been made, wash hands thoroughly with soap and water;
* Poultry and eggs should be thoroughly cooked before eating;
* Wash hands frequently;
* Cover nose and mouth while sneezing or coughing, hold the spit with tissue and put it into covered dustbins;
* Avoid crowded places and contact with sick people with fever;
* Wear a mask when you have respiratory symptoms or need to take care of patients with fever;
* When you have fever and influenza-like illnesses during a trip or upon return to Hong Kong, you should consult a doctor promptly and describe your travel history.
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Gene sequencing by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory indicated that this virus is very similar to the avian influenza virus variant isolated in Shanxi in 2006.
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health received notification from the Ministry of Health (MoH) today (January 6) concerning a confirmed human case of avian influenza H5N1 in Beijing.
A CHP spokesman said the patient was a 19-year-old woman living in a suburb of Beijing.
She developed symptoms on December 24 and passed away on January 5.
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The CHP is maintaining close liaison with the MoH to obtain more information on the case.....
The impression this and other articles are giving is that Hong Kong just found out about this case. If that is true, that is a big problem for Hong Kong and the rest of the world. Sounds like the SARS secrecy all over again.
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The impression this and other articles are giving is that Hong Kong just found out about this case. If that is true, that is a big problem for Hong Kong and the rest of the world. Sounds like the SARS secrecy all over again.
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China confirms bird flu death of Beijing woman-WHO
06 Jan 2009 11:44:13 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Recasts with WHO gets Chinese confirmation, previous HONG KONG)
GENEVA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - China's health ministry has confirmed that a 19-year-old woman died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
China recorded three bird flu cases last year, all fatal. The bird flu virus is constantly mutating, and experts fear it could change into a form that is easily transmitted from person to person and kill millions of people worldwide.
At present, H5N1 remains mainly a bird virus, but WHO data released in mid-December showed 247 people had died from it out of 391 cases since the virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003.
"We received confirmation of the case from the Chinese health ministry. A 19-year-old woman died on Monday in Beijing of H5N1," WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said in Geneva. He had no further information.
Earlier, the Beijing Municipal Bureau and Hong Kong's government gave more details of the latest case.
"The woman fell ill on Dec. 24, was hospitalised on Dec. 27 and died on Monday (at) 7.20 am," the bureau said in a faxed statement.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection said the woman had had contact with poultry before the onset of symptoms. China's official Xinhua News Agency earlier reported the woman had bought nine ducks at a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing. (Reporting by Tan Ee Lyn in Hong Kong and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; editing by Paul Tait and Tim Pearce)
06 Jan 2009 12:57:11 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds Xinhua details in paragraph 9)
BEIJING/HONGKONG, Jan 6 (Reuters) -
A 19-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing after coming into contact with poultry, health authorities in Beijing and Hong Kong said on Tuesday.
This human H5N1 case would be China's first in almost a year. Experts said while the case was not unexpected as the virus is more active during the cooler months between October and March, it points to holes in surveillance of the virus in poultry.
With the world's biggest poultry population and hundreds of millions of farmers raising birds in their backyards, China is seen as crucial in the global fight against bird flu.
"The woman fell ill on Dec. 24, was hospitalised on Dec. 27 and died on Monday (at) 7.20 am," the Beijing Municipal Bureau said in a faxed statement.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection said the woman had had contact with poultry before falling ill.
China's official Xinhua News Agency earlier reported that the woman from eastern Fujian province had bought nine ducks at a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, and then gutted the birds.
She gave three ducks to her father, uncle and a friend and kept the other six ducks, the agency reported.
It added that 116 people, including the patient's 14 family members and neighbour and 102 medical workers, had been in close contact with the patient.
A total of 13 people consumed the ducks bought by the victim, but she was the only one who fell ill, Xinhua said.
The market was open for business on Tuesday night and ducks were still being sold there, it said.
"In many parts of the world, human H5N1 cases are due to contact with infected poultry. A human case would confirm that there is poultry infection somewhere in the vicinity," said a virologist in Hong Kong who declined to be identified.
"It means that there are some leaks in surveillance in the poultry side (in China)," he said.
"Of course, we are approaching Chinese New Year and there is an increase in production, movement in poultry. That's why there's an increase in poultry infection."
The H5N1 remains largely a disease among birds but experts fear it could change into a form that is easily transmitted from person to person, and spark a pandemic that can kill millions of people worldwide.
Beijing has reported the case to the World Health Organization and health authorities in Hong Kong and Macau, and convened an emergency meeting to handle the bird flu case.
The WHO in Beijing said it had offered technical assistance.
Since the H5N1 virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003, it has infected 391 people, killing 247 of them, according to WHO figures released in mid-December.
The last human H5N1 death in China was in February last year when a 44-year-old woman died in the southern Guangdong province.
At least 20 people have died of bird flu in China to date.
In neighbouring Vietnam, a five-year-old has been infected with bird flu, the first human case reported in the country this year, Vietnam's state-run television said on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom, Yu Le, Kirby Chien and Ben Blanchard in Beijing and Tan Ee Lyn in Hong Kong; Editing by Sugita Katyal and Jerry Norton)
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Beijing Reports Fatality in Suspected Bird-Flu Case (Update4)
By Stephanie Wong
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) --
Beijing, the most severely infected city during the 2003 global SARS epidemic, has reported a possible death from avian flu, as an unusually cold winter saps resistance in the Chinese capital.
Huang Yanqing, who died at 7:20 a.m. yesterday in a Beijing hospital, handled the innards of nine ducks bought from a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, state-owned Xinhua News Agency said today in its English service. She had contact with 116 people, Xinhua said, citing the local health bureau.
The Geneva-based World Health Organization said China’s health ministry informed it today of the death, adding that it is prepared to offer technical assistance, according to a statement sent on PRNewswire.
Health and agricultural authorities culled 377,000 poultry in eastern China’s Jiangsu province in December after finding the H5N1 strain of the bird-flu virus in chickens. Areas where the poultry were raised had been disinfected, other birds were placed under quarantine, while the transport of poultry was restricted.
Contact with migratory birds carrying the virus is one possible cause of infection in poultry. Dead chickens in Hong Kong tested positive for the H5N1 strain last month and India culled more than 250,000 birds in its northeastern region to contain an outbreak.
The H5N1 strain of the avian-flu virus has afflicted 392 people worldwide since 2003, according to the WHO. Almost two of every three cases were fatal.
China’s Bird Flu
China has had 31 bird-flu cases in humans and 21 deaths since 2003, according to the WHO. A 24 year-old-man who died in Beijing in 2003 was initially thought to have died from the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Subsequent laboratory tests confirmed he had died from the avian flu, making him the first fatality in the Chinese capital from the disease.
Huang, 19, contracted her disease on Christmas Eve and was hospitalized on Dec. 27, according to a statement today on the Beijing health bureau’s Web site.
A nurse recovered from the fever she’d developed after coming in contact with the deceased woman, Xinhua reported.
China’s government was criticized by the WHO for its slow response to the 2003 SARS outbreak, which infected 8,098 people globally, killing 774, almost a third of the cases in the Chinese capital. President Hu Jintao fired health minister Zhang Wenkang and Beijing mayor Meng Xuenong in 2003, after admitting that the city had covered up the number of SARS cases in the city.
An emergency meeting was convened yesterday in Beijing to handle the bird-flu case, Xinhua said without elaborating.
To contact the reporter on this story: Stephanie Wong in Shanghai at swong139@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: January 6, 2009 10:17 EST
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A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital, the government reported Tuesday, but the World Health Organization said the case did not appear to signal a new public health threat.
China's Ministry of Health said Huang Yanqing, 19, died Monday and tests confirmed she had the H5N1 bird flu virus. The official Xinhua News Agency said Huang became ill after buying and cleaning nine ducks in December at a market in Hebei province, which borders Beijing.
It was the first reported death in China from the illness in nearly a year.Her father, Huang Jinxian, told reporters that the family tried to treat Yanqing at home first with store bought medicine.
"It was useless, so we sent her to Guanzhuang hospital" in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, he said.
The WHO said Huang's case was similar to others reported worldwide, in that it did not appear to involve human-to-human transmission.
"This single case, which appears to have occurred during the slaughtering and preparation of poultry, does not change our risk assessment," the organization's Beijing office said in a statement.
Officials worry the virus could mutate into a much-feared form that could spread easily among people. But, for now, it remains hard for people to catch, with most human cases linked to contact with infected birds.
According to the latest WHO tally, bird flu has killed 248 people worldwide since 2003, including 21 in China.
In northern Vietnam, meanwhile, an 8-year-old girl has tested positive for the disease — the first human case reported there in almost a year, health officials said Tuesday.
The girl from Thanh Hoa province was admitted to a hospital on Dec. 27 with a high fever and other symptoms after eating a sick goose raised by the family, said Nguyen Ngoc Thanh, acting director of the provincial health department. The girl is recovering.
The H5N1 bird flu virus continues to devastate poultry stocks around the world. China, which raises more poultry than any other country, has vowed to aggressively fight the virus.
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Emergency meeting, I wonder what the emergency is, can't be 1 confirmed case ?
Evidently, the fear is about the more than hundred of people involved, mostly health care workers that had contacts with deceased patient.
Tracing poultry movement is also an urgent task, because the market is said to be remained open until tuesday and the ducks have been sold well beyond the onset date of the patient firstly has bought infected animals.
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Re: China: Woman, 19, Confirmed H5N1 Death - Contacts Monitored
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China's official Xinhua News Agency earlier reported that the woman from eastern Fujian province had bought nine ducks at a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, and then gutted the birds.
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She gave three ducks to her father, uncle and a friend and kept the other six ducks, the agency reported.
It added that 116 people, including the patient's 14 family members and neighbour and 102 medical workers, had been in close contact with the patient.
A total of 13 people consumed the ducks bought by the victim, but she was the only one who fell ill, Xinhua said.
The market was open for business on Tuesday night and ducks were still being sold there, it said.
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曾清洗鸭子内脏女子染禽流感病逝
Cleaning woman had been infected duck offal died of bird flu
[亚洲新闻网] 沉寂一时的禽流感病毒又再肆虐。
[Asia News Network] silence the moment the bird flu virus raging again. 中国北京一名少女证实感染了禽流感而死亡。
Beijing, China confirmed a teenage girl was infected with bird flu.
越南也有一名八岁女童被发现染上禽流感，她在入院前曾经接触过家禽。 Vietnam also has an eight-year-old girl was found infected with bird flu, she had been in pre-hospital exposure to poultry. 卫生人员也从她住家附近的家禽身上，验出H5N1病毒。 Health personnel from her home near the body of poultry, tested H5N1.
病逝的19岁少女黄燕清，住在北京朝阳区的一个村子里。
The 19-year-old girl died Huang Yan-qing, living in Chaoyang District, Beijing, in a village.
她在两个多星期前出现肺炎等禽流感症状而入院治疗，星期一不治身亡。
She more than two weeks before the emergence of bird flu symptoms such as pneumonia and were admitted into hospital on Monday died.
死者患病前曾经在河北省买回几只当场宰杀的鸭子，并清洗过鸭子内脏。
The deceased had been sick before in Hebei Province on the spot to buy a few ducks slaughtered and cleaned duck offal.
Beijing Municipal Government has been sending health personnel, for the deceased, a resident of the village comprehensive disinfection, at the same time keep a close watch on the deceased have been in contact with more than 100 health.
当局也相继向世界卫生组织以及港澳地区通报了相关信息。
Authorities also have to inform the World Health Organization, and Hong Kong and Macao regions of the relevant information. 中国已经有至少20人死于禽流感。 China has at least 20 people have died of bird flu.
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19-year-old woman in Beijing dies of avian flu
Created: 2009-1-7 1:26:06
A 19-YEAR-OLD Beijing woman who suffered the city's first human case of bird flu since 2003 has died, municipal health authorities said yesterday.
There were no immediate reports of any other illnesses associated with her death or outbreaks of bird flu among flocks in the region.
Huang Yanqing, who became sick on December 24, was hospitalized on December 27 as her condition deteriorated. She died on Monday morning.
Experts at the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Preventive Medical Research and the Academy of Military Medical Sciences checked biological samples taken from Huang.
The samples tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, and the results were confirmed by the Ministry of Health.
Huang, a native of east China's Fujian Province who lived in Beijing, bought nine ducks on December 19 at the Yanjiaoqingong Market in Langfang City in Hebei Province.
Huang removed the ducks' internal organs, according to the Beijing Health Bureau, and gave ducks to her father, uncle and a friend and kept the other six ducks.
"According to the initial investigation, 13 people ate the ducks, and Huang was the only one who fell ill," said Zhao Qingchao, a Langfang government official.
"We thoroughly combed all stands in the market," he added.
The official said the ducks were traced to Jixian County in Tianjin City, which borders Beijing.
As of last evening, the Yanjiaoqingong Market was still open for business, and ducks were still being sold there.
No bird flu cases have been found in Langfang City so far, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.
Experts at the ministry, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Preventive Medical Research have arrived in Langfang to complete the investigation.
The Beijing Health Bureau said 116 people, including Huang's 14 family members and neighbors and 102 medical workers, had been in close contact with the patient. Among them, one nurse suffered a fever but has recovered.
Beijing reported the case to the World Health Organization and health authorities in the Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions.
An emergency meeting was convened in Beijing on Monday evening to address the bird flu case.
Beijing has carried out a series of bird flu prevention and control measures, including disinfecting and isolating Huang's house and the wards where she was treated.
Medical institutions at all levels are closely monitoring for possible additional cases, according to local officials.
Last month, a baby girl was diagnosed as having the less-virulent H9N2 bird flu strain and received treatment in a Hong Kong hospital.
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Emergency meeting, I wonder what the emergency is, can't be 1 confirmed case ? Could be anything, including handling the publicity.
From Jiangsu outbreak:
http://www.oie.int/wahis/public.php?...&reportid=7636
Gene sequencing by the National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory indicated that this virus is very similar to the avian influenza virus variant isolated in Shanxi in 2006.
A 19-year-old Beijing woman has died of avian flu, reigniting fears of bird flu transmission to humans.
It is the first reported death from the disease in the mainland for nearly a year.
Chinese University microbiologist Paul Chan Kay-sheung said yesterday that, as long as the virus continues to circulate in poultry, the threat of transmission to humans remains.
"There is no sign avian flu is weakening. So we expect to see more humans getting the virus from birds," Chan said.
He also warned that, once human-to-human transmissions were detected, the world could face a pandemic.
Chan said global statistics indicate the death rate of bird flu in humans is 60 percent, which is "very high" when compared with one in a thousand in normal human flu.
He said the large human traffic between Hong Kong and the mainland increases the risk of transmission. But he stopped short of saying Hong Kong should stockpile the new H5 vaccines.
Confirmation of the H5N1 death in Beijing was received by the Department of Health's Centre for Health Protection yesterday.
A CHP spokesman said the victim was a 19-year- old woman who lived in a Beijing suburb.
She developed symptoms on December 24 and died on January 5.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the woman, Huang Yanqing, died on Monday after buying nine ducks at a market in Beijing's neighboring Hebei province.
The bureau said 116 people had been in close contact with Huang.
One of them, a nurse, had contracted a fever but recovered.
In Vietnam, authorities reported an eight-year- old girl has tested positive for H5N1 in the north of the country.
The girl contracted pneumonia in Thanh Hoa province on December 27 after eating poultry and was admitted to a provincial hospital on January 2, local officials said.
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