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Posted: April 18 2006 at 6:46am |
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Health Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that a 21-year-old man in the central province of Hubei has been infected with H5N1 bird flu. The man, a migrant worker, was in critical condition, the ministry said on its Web site, adding that it had informed the World Health Organization. The latest case brings to 17 the number of human bird flu infections in the world's most populous nation. Eleven have died. China reported its first death from the virus in November of last year.
Epidemiologists fear that bird flu could mutate to a form where it could pass easily among humans, potentially triggering a pandemic in which millions could die. There have been more than 30 outbreaks in poultry in a dozen provinces over the past year in China. © Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved. |
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Another migrant worker is infected. I wonder if they are doing any type of surveillance with this group of people. Probably not.
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To date, Chine is only reporting the most critical of cases, and that only from a few of the provinces. Some provinces with very high pneumonia rates are still not reporting that some of those cases are H5N1 enduced pneumonia. |
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This article says he was a security guard and that he was originally diagnosed with "pneumonia of unknown causes."
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-04/18/content_570909.htm |
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Local officials say the patient is in critical condition and is under medical observation. The ministry says the man first showed symptoms of bird flu on April 1. An investigation is underway to determine how he was exposed to the disease. The man is the 17th person confirmed to have avian flu in China, where eleven people have died from the disease. The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 100 people worldwide, most of them in Asia. The disease has also been detected in humans in Middle Eastern countries including Iraq, Turkey and Egypt. Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters. http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-04-18-voa41.cfm
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Another human bird flu case confirmed (Xinhua/AP) Updated: 2006-04-18 21:04 A 21-year-old man in central China's Hubei Province was confirmed to be infected with H5N1 bird flu, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. The man worked as a security guard in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, said Aphaluck Bhatiasevi, a spokeswoman for the WHO's Beijing office. He became sick on April 1 and was suffering from a high fever, she said. He was diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown causes, she said. "The likely source of exposure is still under investigation and people who had close contact with him are under medical observation," Bhatiasevi said. The patient has been confirmed to be infected with bird flu in accordance with the standards of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Chinese official standards, the ministry said. The man is China's 17th confirmed human case of bird flu since November on the mainland, where 11 people have died from the disease. The ministry has reported the new case to the WHO and the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as several other countries. The H5N1 virus has killed 109 people in nine countries, mostly in Asia, according to WHO, and has killed or prompted authorities to destroy 200 million birds. Edited by Rick - April 18 2006 at 9:13am |
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LOCATION OF WUHAN http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.yangtzeriver.org/map/wuhan_map.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.yangtzeriver.org/wuhan/map.htm&h=239&w=303&sz=7&tbnid=N91hAsmeJjG6cM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=112&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2BWuhan%2BMAP%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN Edited by Rick - April 18 2006 at 10:12am |
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Rick: IF this new case has been ill for almost 3 weeks, can u imagine how many people he has come in contact with..ans possible infected as well?... .this is crazy
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It still does not pass Human to Human with ease. He may have infected another, but that is still not the main means of transmission. Human to human is present in China, but the virus still needs to evolve to easier transmission. November. |
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