Chinese man dies of bird flu
A man in southern China’s Jiangsu province has died of bird flu, becoming the country’s 17th official fatality from the disease, the government said today.
The 24-year-old, whose surname was given as Lu, died in hospital yesterday and tests confirmed he was suffering from the difficult-to-treat H5N1 virus, the Jiangsu Provincial Disease Control and Prevention Centre said in a statement on its website.
