BMJ  2006;333:7 (1 July), doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7557.7

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Chinese man died three years ago of avian flu, not SARS

Hong Kong

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Chinese scientists have said that a man who died of suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in November 2003 in fact died of the H5N1 strain of avian flu. The information came to light in a letter published on 22 June in the New England Journal of Medicine (2006;354: 2731-2[Free Full Text]).

A Chinese child passes a chicken market in Nan Jiang this month Credit: EMPICS

 

The letter is the first documented evidence that H5N1 bird flu was circulating in China long before the authorities there confirmed the first human case in the country in 2005. Furthermore, the case it describes precedes the fatal cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in Vietnam and Thailand. The information in the letter is important because it raises concerns about the degree of openness of the authorities in China in disseminating information about H5N1 bird flu infections and also . . . [Full text of this article]

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