Pekin - 22-01-2012
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2012/01/22/actualidad/1327243977_731659.html
Second victim for the avian flu virus in a month in China
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Jose Reinoso Beijing 22 ENE 2012 - 15:53 CET
Bird flu has claimed its second victim in a month in China. A 39 year old man died today in hospital Guiyan (capital of the southern province of Guizhou) because of the H5N1 virus, after three days in intensive care, as reported by the Ministry of Health. The patient began to have fever on 6 January, after which he was hospitalized but his condition deteriorated rapidly. The tests that were performed before his death had been confirmed infected with the virus.
He had close contact with 71 people, but none has shown symptoms of the disease, the ministry said. The virus is normally found in birds, but can jump to humans. The current outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1, kills most species of birds that are infected and around 60% of people.
Guiyan The fatality is the second recorded in China for bird flu in less than a month after a bus driver in the southern province of Guangdong died on December 31. This was the first Asian country died from the disease in one and a half. A total of 28 people have died in China by the virus since 2003, compared to 336 in the world.
Most human cases result from direct contact with infected birds, as the virus does not spread easily between people. The World Health Organization says it has never identified a "continuous spread from human to human" virus since it resurfaced in 2003. But according to Chinese health authorities, the victim had not been exposed Guiyan clearly to any bird before they develop symptoms. Neither had been the driver of Guangdong in the month prior to falling ill, or had left the city of Shenzhen, where he lived. Researchers fear that the current virus will mutate into a form easily transmitted between people and cause millions of deaths.
Vietnam on Thursday reported its first death from bird flu in almost two years. In Cambodia, has recently died a small boy, and Indonesia said Friday that a baby had died five years, who had recently lost a relative to the virus.
China is considered one of the nations most at risk from the possibility of an avian flu epidemic because it has the world's largest population of poultry and many chickens in rural areas live in close contact with people.
The authorities in Hong Kong and mainland China have been working closely since three chickens in the former British colony tested positive for H5N1 virus in mid-December, forcing the government of the region to order the slaughter of several thousand copies to contain the spread of the disease. The virus kills migratory birds easily become infected, but those that survive can disperse easily and create pockets of infection.
He had close contact with 71 people, but none has shown symptoms of the disease, the ministry said. The virus is normally found in birds, but can jump to humans. The current outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1, kills most species of birds that are infected and around 60% of people.
Guiyan The fatality is the second recorded in China for bird flu in less than a month after a bus driver in the southern province of Guangdong died on December 31. This was the first Asian country died from the disease in one and a half. A total of 28 people have died in China by the virus since 2003, compared to 336 in the world.
Most human cases result from direct contact with infected birds, as the virus does not spread easily between people. The World Health Organization says it has never identified a "continuous spread from human to human" virus since it resurfaced in 2003. But according to Chinese health authorities, the victim had not been exposed Guiyan clearly to any bird before they develop symptoms. Neither had been the driver of Guangdong in the month prior to falling ill, or had left the city of Shenzhen, where he lived. Researchers fear that the current virus will mutate into a form easily transmitted between people and cause millions of deaths.
Vietnam on Thursday reported its first death from bird flu in almost two years. In Cambodia, has recently died a small boy, and Indonesia said Friday that a baby had died five years, who had recently lost a relative to the virus.
China is considered one of the nations most at risk from the possibility of an avian flu epidemic because it has the world's largest population of poultry and many chickens in rural areas live in close contact with people.
The authorities in Hong Kong and mainland China have been working closely since three chickens in the former British colony tested positive for H5N1 virus in mid-December, forcing the government of the region to order the slaughter of several thousand copies to contain the spread of the disease. The virus kills migratory birds easily become infected, but those that survive can disperse easily and create pockets of infection.
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