Two bird flu patients in central-south China fully recover
21/5/2006 10:44
Two boys in central-south China's Hunan Province have recovered fully from
bird flu. The nine-year-old boy surnamed He and the six-year-old boy surnamed
Ouyang recorded positive check-up results and President of the Hunan Provincial
Children's Hospital Zhu Yimin, who is in charge of the treatment of bird flu
patients, said his hospital will arrange regular checkups for the boys until
they are 18 years old. The boy surnamed He was diagnosed with bird flu last
October and was discharged from hospital on Nov. 12, 2005 after being
cured. Ouyang was confirmed on Jan. 9 to have been infected with H5N1 bird
flu. He left hospital on Feb. 23.
Xinhua News
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