Isolation lifted for 124 people in close contact with bird flu victim
15/3/2006 17:23
Isolation has been lifted from 124 people who had close contact with a
young man who died of bird flu in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong
Province, early this month.
The Guangzhou City Health Bureau announced on
Wednesday that all the 124 people were removed from medical observation on
Sunday.
The 32-year-old man, surnamed Lao, was the first human case of bird
flu in Guangzhou. He started to show symptoms of fever and pneumonia on Feb. 22.
Lao died on March 2 after all rescue work failed.
Local medical experts ruled
out that his girlfriend, who caught a fever, was infected with bird flu and
discharged her from a hospital on Saturday.
Guangzhou also terminated the
daily report on the bird flu situation emergency measure, as no new bird flu
outbreaks in poultry or new suspected human cases have been detected, according
to the local health bureau.
As of March 7, the Chinese mainland had reported
15 confirmed human cases of bird flu, among which 10 resulted in
deaths.
Globally, 175 human cases, involving 95 deaths, have been reported to
the World Health Organization as of March 6, according to the WHO's website.
Xinhua
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