Man dies of suspected bird flu in Guangzhou

[PhilipShore]

Reuters
Man dies of suspected bird flu in Guangzhou
04 Mar 2006

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HKG348691.htm

HONG KONG, March 4 (Reuters) - A man has died of suspected bird flu in southern China, just over the border from Hong Kong, the territory's Centre for Health Protection said.

The Health Department of Guangdong Province and Ministry of Health told the Hong Kong government that a 32-year-old Chinese man developed fever and pneumonia on Feb. 22 and died on March 2, the centre said in a statement late on Friday.

The risk of avian influenza appearing in people in Hong Kong was also increasing, the head of the Centre for Health Protection, Leung Pak-yin, was quoted as saying on Saturday in the English-language daily South China Morning Post.

[monktonman]

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