A woman who fell ill last month is probably the second human victim of bird flu in Laos, although conclusive test results are still pending, a Health Ministry official said on sunday, reported by Times of India.
The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health received notification from the Ministry of Health concerning a confirmed human case of avian influenza H5N1 in Fujian.
A Yorkshire aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago could help the global fight against bird flu, reported BBC.
Scientists and public health officials, wary that the H5N1 avian influenza virus could trigger an influenza pandemic, have looked to past pandemics, including the 1918 “Spanish Flu,” for insight into pandemic planning.
A U.S. advisory panel of Food and Drug Administration has supported the bird flu vaccine data from Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutical company.
United Nations health agency officials are monitoring an area of Laos following the first human case of bird flu to be reported in the South-East Asian country, bringing to one dozen the total number of States with human infections.
The Ministry of Health in Lao People’s Democratic Republic has today reported the first human case of infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
Vietnam confirmed a bird flu outbreak in chickens in a northern province only two weeks after it announced the disease had been contained, reported Reuters.
The Laos Public Health Ministry confirmed that the country’s first suspected human case of avian influenza has been detected, following an outbreak of the virus at a poultry farm on the outskirts of Vientiane earlier this month, reporeted by Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Kuwait’s health ministry on confirmed outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu at a zoo and a farm in the south of the country, reported by Reuters.