New bird flu case suspected in Guangdong (China Daily) Updated: 2004-02-13 00:27 A suspected case of the killer H5NI bird flu
strain was reported in Guangdong Province's Shaoguan yesterday, according to the
Ministry of Agriculture spokesman, Jia Youling, for bird flu control. It is the
first reported case in the city of 3.1 million people, which is in the nation's
south.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health yesterday issued an emergency document
asking diseases control centres, especially those in epidemic areas, to
strengthen the surveillance of possible human-to-human transmissions.
From today, diseases control centres in badly hit regions will start
compiling information about people who have picked up heavy flu and pneumonia
without clear reasons, reporting daily to the Ministry of Health.
No human-to-human transmissions have been found in China.
In Bangkok, Chinese Ambassador Yan Ting'ai, on behalf the Chinese Government,
passed on a 4-million-baht (US$100,000) donation to the Thai Foreign Minister,
Surakiat Sathirathai, to help the kingdom bring its bird flu problem under
control.
China has so far provided donations to Viet Nam, Indonesia, Cambodia and
Thailand, in an attempt to stamp out the disease.
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