China recommended that WHO support bird flu testing

Facing complicated developments of avian influenza, China had to ask the World Health Organization (WHO) for help. So far, three people in the country are thought to be infected with bird flu, including one death.

Facing complicated developments in bird flu, China had to ask WHO for help

China has asked the WHO to help determine the death of a 12-year-old girl last month because of bird flu. If confirmed, this is the first case of death from bird flu in the country.

According to Xinhua, there are four outbreaks of bird flu in poultry in China over the past three weeks and three people in central China's Hunan province have unexplained pneumonia last month. .

The little girl, called He Yin, died only 3 days after a high fever on October 13. Xinhua said she had 'very close contact with sick poultry'. Her 9-year-old brother was also hospitalized with similar symptoms but recovered afterwards. The third victim is a 36-year-old high school teacher who is reported to have cut raw chicken meat while having a small wound in his hand. Then he fell ill.

All three cases lived in or near Wantang, the village where the government said 545 chickens and ducks died of bird flu last month.

Chinese officials said both girls and boys were negative for bird flu, but experts said that 'the possibility of spreading the H5N1 bird flu virus cannot be ruled out. therefore more intensive tests are needed '.

Roy Wadia, a WHO spokesman in Beijing, confirmed China has asked WHO to support the three victims' blood and larynx.

T.VY (According to AP, Xinhua)