AFP Photo
A vendor weighs chickens at an
outdoor poultry market in eastern China's Jiangsu
province on December 9. A 35-year-old man has been
confirmed as China's sixth human case of bird flu.
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BEIJING (AFP) - A
35-year-old man has been confirmed as China's sixth human case
of bird flu.
The man, who was unidentified, came from Suichuan county in
eastern Jiangxi province, the Xinhua news agency said, citing
the ministry of health.
It provided no other detail in its one-sentence report. An
outbreak of bird flu at a duck farm in the same county was
reported by the agriculture ministry earlier in the day.
This is the first confirmed human case in Jiangxi. So far, two
cases have been confirmed in east China's Anhui province, one in
Liaoning province in the northeast, one in Hunan in the center,
and one in Guangxi region in the south.
Two of the cases have died. Thirty-one H5N1 outbreaks among
poultry have been confirmed across China this year, most of them
over the past five or six weeks.
China is seen as a potential flashpoint for a feared global
pandemic because it has the world's biggest poultry population
and is part of three major global routes taken for migratory
birds.
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