3 cases of people infected with bird flu in China

Yesterday China announced three cases of bird flu. All three of them are in the plague-prone areas of Hunan and Anhui provinces.

The World Health Organization said all three people were infected with the H5N1 bird flu strain and two died. The two victims were a 12-year-old girl (in Hunan Province) and a female worker working in the 24-year-old poultry industry (in Anhui province).

The third case of infection is a little girl, the sister of a 9-year-old boy who was infected but recovered.

The Chinese government is also conducting tests for a worker in the symptomatic poultry industry in Liaoning province (where there are four outbreaks).

In this situation, experts fear that the possibility of a variant of the avian flu strain that can be easily transmitted from human to human is becoming a reality. The reason is that because the poultry population is very large in this country, the habit of living with poultry of the people and China is the gateway of migrating birds.

Workers are organizing bactericidal in Liaoning province, China

KINH LUAN (According to AP)