Woohoo! But how many people are really infected in China? Thanks to their communist government, we will soon find out. But not from them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051123/..._china_case_dc
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it had confirmed a third human case of bird flu.
The Xinhua news agency, quoting the Health Ministry, said a 35-year-old woman farmer in Anhui province had developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on November 11 after contact with sick and dead poultry. She died on November 22.
Xinhua said tests by China's Center for Disease Control and Prevtion had proved positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza.
H5N1 has killed 67 people in Asia since 2003, and both the
World Bank and Asian Development Bank have warned of the huge economic costs of a human pandemic should the virus mutate into a form that can spread easily among people.
For now, the virus is hard for humans to catch. But the case confirmed on Wednesday is China's second known fatality. A poultry worker from Anhui died of bird flu on November 10.
Another confirmed case, a nine-year-old boy, survived infection while his dead sister is a suspected case.
Some 50 million Chinese households raise poultry, mainly in backyards, yet the average number of birds raised is just 19, he said, citing a Chinese government survey.