BEIJING: A 21-year-old woman in central China has been infected by the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country's eighth reported case of the disease this year, the Health Ministry said Sunday, as Hong Kong reported that three birds found at local beaches had died of bird flu.
Gangtok: The fear of spread of bird flu in different areas of Sikkim was allayed as the blood samples of chickens who had died recently at Maaling in North district tested negative in the Animal Disease Diagnostic laboratory in Bhopal, an animal husbandry department official said on Thursday.
An 18-year-old man died on Monday of bird flu in south-western China, the government said, bringing to five the number killed since the start of the year and adding to fears of a possible mass outbreak.
The man, surnamed Liang, died in the city of Yulin in the Guangxi region after falling ill on January 19, the health ministry said in a news release posted on its website.
Jakarta: Two Indonesians have died of bird flu, apparently after contact with sick chickens, raising the country's death toll to 115, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
A 16-year-old boy died of bird flu in central China on Tuesday, state media reported, the third death this year, as experts warned that surveillance gaps could mask the true extent of the disease in Chinese poultry.
New Delhi: The Union health ministry has rushed a three-member team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases to Sikkim after it became the third state in the country to report an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu this year.
West Bengal and Assam are already reeling under an outbreak.
