FUZHOU -- A villager from east China has been discharged from hospital after three months of treatment for the H5N1 bird flu virus.

Li Yinxiu (R), a resident fo Xiaosong township, left the Jian'ou city hospital after three months of treatment for the H5N1 bird flu virus. [Xinhua]

Li Yinxiu, a resident of Xiaosong township, Fujian Province, left the Jian'ou city hospital on Tuesday morning.

"She has recovered from the influenza, and her blood pressure, breathing, pulse and temperature are all back to normal," said Lin Zhangshu, Li's doctor.

Li, 44, developed symptoms of fever and pneumonia on February 18 after being in contact with dead poultry.

She was diagnosed with human avian influenza by experts with the Ministry of Health on February 28.

China has reported a total of 25 human cases of bird flu since 2003, which have resulted in 15 deaths.

The Ministry of Health confirmed last August that the country's first human case of H5N1 bird flu virus occurred in November 2003. A 24-year-old man who died in Beijing in 2003 was initially thought to have died from SARS.