Health & Community

5 more human bird flu cases reported

(February 11, 2014)

The Centre for Health Protection is monitoring five more human cases of avian influenza - one each in Guangzhou and Anhui, and three in Zhejiang.
 
The Guangzhou case was a five-year-old girl who recovered and was sent home from hospital. The Anhui case was a man, 56, who died on February 7.
 
The Zhejiang cases are two men, aged 62 and 67, and a woman, 47, all of whom are in hospital.
 
As of yesterday, a total of 329 human avian influenza cases had been confirmed in the Mainland.