China reports new death from bird flu
China, Jun 11, 2010
On June 4, China's Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a report that a 22-year-old pregnant woman died from a bird flu infection in China's central Hubei province the previous day (June 3). According to the MoH's Web site, the woman was four months pregnant when she was hospitalized on May 23. According to Xinhua, the woman died just hours after she tested positive for the H5N1 strain of avian influenza by local officials. The MoH says that those who had been in close contact with the woman are under observation, but so far none have become sick. The MoH report says that the woman had been in contact with sick birds before she fell ill. According to Xinhua, experts sent by the Ministry of Agriculture have not found signs of an avian flu epidemic among birds in the region. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the woman was the first reported death from H5N1 since early last year. According to AFP, China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that it was not clear how she contracted the illness as no outbreaks had been detected in poultry since last year. Based on World Health Organization (WHO) figures, AFP reports that the latest death brings to 26 the number of people who have died in China since H5N1 reemerged in 2003, out of 39 reported human cases. There were eight human cases of infection in China in January and February of last year, five of whom died, but no further cases had been reported since then, according to AFP. China is considered one of the countries most at risk of a bird flu epidemic as it has the world's largest poultry population and many chickens in rural areas are kept in close proximity to humans, AFP reported.
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