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China to vaccinate all 14bn poultry against bird flu
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-16 01:18 Meanwhile, WHO experts were visiting a bird flu-infected village in central
China to help investigate why a 12-year-old girl died and two others were
sickened.
The team from Beijing was going to Wangtan, a village in Hunan province,
where the government says 545 chickens and ducks died of bird flu last month,
Xinhua News Agency said.
They will also visit the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital, where the
12-year-old girl and her brother were treated for pneumonia symptoms, it said.
The girl died Oct. 17 with a high fever, while the 9-year-old boy was
released last weekend. A 36-year-old school teacher was still hospitalized but
was said to be recovering.
Health officials said they initially tested negative for H5N1, but have
reopened the case and asked the WHO to help.
The WHO team will "look into any gaps that remain," said Wadia, the WHO
spokesman said.
"They will go back in time and review all the steps that have been taken, see
if anything has been excluded or if any information that has been collected and
not recognized as important," Wadia said.
The visit comes one day after Anhui province in the east announced its second
outbreak in poultry.
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