3 people suspect bird flu in China

China has announced three suspected cases of H5N1 and called for help from WHO in verifying the number of cases.

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Three suspected cases were a 12-year-old girl who died, her 9-year-old brother and a 36-year-old high school teacher in Wantang Village, Hunan Province. Currently, the younger brother and teacher have recovered, after Chinese doctors initially did not show signs of bird flu virus and concluded that the cause was due to pneumonia. However, Chinese experts " do not rule out the possibility of human-to-human transmission of H5N1 virus " in the three cases mentioned above.

Earlier, Wantang village witnessed an outbreak of bird flu. Yesterday, China also destroyed 370,000 poultry in Liaoning province, after nearly 9,000 were killed by H5N1 here. Only in the past 3 weeks, China has continuously faced 4 epidemics.

Every effort to develop the vaccine is currently ineffective because it is not known exactly what type of H5N1 virus will be transformed. Meanwhile, countries only have a way to store Tamiflu - the drug believed to be the only weapon against bird flu today.

Avian flu is still hot in some parts of the world. In North Korea, people began to adopt a number of anti-pandemic measures such as strengthening quarantine at border gates and airports, disinfecting barns and vehicles, restricting people to poultry farms.

Yesterday, Malaysia also confirmed that H5N1 is not the culprit killing 100 doves. Hong Kong announced that it would impose a fine of 193 USD on anyone raising pigeons in the middle buildings.

ML ( according to AP )