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China reports second bird flu death this month
AFP - 1 hour 17 minutes ago
BEIJING (AFP) - - A woman has died of bird flu in east China's Shandong province, state media said Sunday, reporting the nation's second death from the disease this month.
The 27-year-old, surnamed Zhang, fell ill on January 5 and died Saturday evening, Xinhua news agency said, citing the Shandong provincial health department.
The national disease prevention and control centre on Sunday confirmed that she was infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, according to Xinhua.
It brings to 22 the number of people in China who have died from the virus since 2003.
Earlier this month, a 19-year-old woman died of bird flu in Beijing -- the country's first fatal case in nearly a year -- after handling ducks she had bought in a market.
The report of Zhang's death came a day after Chinese state media said that a two-year-old girl had fallen ill from bird flu. The toddler was reported to be in a critical condition in Sunday evening primetime TV news.
People who were in close contact with Zhang are now under close observation, but so far no one has fallen ill, the China News Service said.
China has reported the case to the World Health Organisation (WHO), as well as health authorities in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, according to the China News Service.
Meanwhile, China's Ministry of Agriculture said late Sunday that tests carried out in poultry farms and markets in areas where the two-year-old, surnamed Peng, had been, had found no abnormalities.
The girl, hospitalised in northern Shanxi province, had fallen ill in central China's Hunan province earlier in the month, according to Xinhua.
Bird flu outbreaks tend to happen in the winter months, when low temperatures create more favourable conditions for the virus to spread.
Prior to this month's cases, and in addition to the fatalities, 10 Chinese were known to have contracted bird flu but survived.
According to the WHO, about 250 people have died from bird flu worldwide since 2003.
Scientists fear the virus could mutate to jump easily from human to human, potentially sparking a global pandemic.
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