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Bird
Flu China
China's
Health Minister is asking the World Health Organization to help
determine if the death of a 12-year-old girl was from the H5N1
bird flu virus in China.
To date, no deaths have
been reported from the bird flu in China.
However, the
Health Ministry concedes initial tests indicate the H5N1 bird flu
virus killed a 12-year-old girl.
China is enlisting the
support of the World Health Organization to determine if a recent
death and 3 recent pneumonia cases are the result of the H5N1 bird
flu in China.
Health Minister Gao Qiang ordered health
departments across China to act quickly to prevent and contain
human infections of the bird flu.
Gao Qiang ordered
health departments to improve monitoring, control and treatment
efforts, and implored them to work with the departments of
agriculture, civil aviation and transportation to share
information.
China's Health Minister also emphasized the
importance of publicizing bird flu prevention knowledge and
cooperating with international and regional
organizations.
Cases of the bird flu among birds in
China have been widespread, mostly along a migratory bird route
between Asia to Australia.
In northeast China's Liaoning
Province, in the county of Heishan, farmers and health workers
slaughtered 6 million poultry in an effort to stop the recent
outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu in China.
Deputy
secretary-general of the Jinzhou municipal government said all the
culled poultry were within 3 kilometers of the epidemic site.
A
local publicity department will be producing CD's of recent expert
lectures and booklets on bird flu prevention among the residents
of the affected areas.
In the northwest, the
provincial forestry authority began daily surveillance to prevent
against an outbreak of bird flu in China's Qinghai Province.
On
Bird Island of Qunghai Lake, almost 6000 migratory birds died from
the bird flu last May.
The forestry department has set up 3
observation centers to watch for the bird flu within the migratory
region, which includes Qunghai Lake, Three-River Headwaters and
Hol Xil.
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