Boy triggers bird flu alert
Source: Xinhua |
June 3, 2012, Sunday
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SOUTH China's Guangdong province is on high alert after a Hong Kong hospital confirmed it has admitted a two-year-old boy infected with the H5 strain of avian influenza.
The boy was taken to hospital on May 28 after arriving from Guangdong's capital city of Guangzhou. He tested positive for the H5 strain.
He was confirmed to have been in contact with a live duck between May 17 and 19 at a farmer's market in Guangzhou. However, tests conducted at the market, those nearby and a hospital in Guangzhou that admitted the boy, found no signs of H5, said He Jianfeng, director of the Epidemic Studies Institute of the Guangdong Disease Control Center.
He said the province has launched an avian influenza response plan.
The boy was taken to hospital on May 28 after arriving from Guangdong's capital city of Guangzhou. He tested positive for the H5 strain.
He was confirmed to have been in contact with a live duck between May 17 and 19 at a farmer's market in Guangzhou. However, tests conducted at the market, those nearby and a hospital in Guangzhou that admitted the boy, found no signs of H5, said He Jianfeng, director of the Epidemic Studies Institute of the Guangdong Disease Control Center.
He said the province has launched an avian influenza response plan.
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