Bird flu has resurfaced
December 20th, 2007
From The Columbus Dispatch (Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007):
Bird flu resurfaces in parts of Asia
Saturday, December 15, 2007 2:55 AM
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Bird flu has resurfaced in parts of Asia, with human deaths reported in Indonesia and China and fresh outbreaks plaguing other countries during the winter when the virus typically flares.
Indonesia, the nation hardest hit by the H5N1 virus, announced its 93rd death yesterday. A 47-year-old man died a day earlier in a Jakarta hospital, said Health Ministry spokesman Joko Suyono. The man fell ill on Dec. 2 and was admitted with flu-like symptoms, becoming Indonesia’s 115th person infected with the disease.
In China, the military in eastern Nanjing banned the sale of poultry this week after a father and son came down with the disease earlier this month. Health officials confirmed the 24-year-old man died from the virus a day before his father, 52, became sick. It was the country’s 17th bird-flu death.
Most human cases have been linked to contact with sick birds.
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