Bird flu patient released from hospital
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-08-03 09:42
A bird flu patient was released yesterday in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province.
Authorities confirmed the 31-year-old man known as Jiang caught the H5N1 on
June 13. He was a local truck driver.
Jiang is the only male, adult patient of bird flu that Chinese doctors have
cured, authorities said. China has reported 19 human cases of bird flu since
last year. Twelve of them died.
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