Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Nanjing bird flu cases confirmed "person to person"

http://www.chnmf.com 2008-12-30 flour China Network

Social business December 29 hearing
Held yesterday in Guangzhou in 2008 working conference on emergency management, in particular to remind Academician Zhong Nanshan said, "We must be on guard against human-to-human influenza incident." Zhong Nanshan said that in December 2007 Nanjing bird flu cases confirmed his father's son to the avian flu incident. Cases of avian flu called Lu Wei's father, 52-year-old son in November 2007 was the disease, was hospitalized on the 27th, December 2 death, his father did not come into contact with poultry, 27 have been nursing his son more than 20 hours, the results also had bird flu, was to rescue them.

Zhong Nanshan in an interview also with particular emphasis on "person to person" means referring to the virus or avian flu virus has not yet become a human influenza virus, but it is through human transmission, so special attention should be paid with bird flu patients have had close contact with patients

1 comment:

nigelthomas said...

Well reported. It is these human-to-human transmissions we must watch very closely.

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