China Reports First Human Death from H3N8 Bird Flu: WHO
Only three people have so far been known to have contracted the disease, all of them in China.
KOMPAS.com \- China has reported the first fatal case of H3N8 bird flu in humans after registering two other non-fatal infections with the disease last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said late on Tuesday, April 11. The death reported was that of a 56-year-old woman from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. The WHO said that a wider spread of the virus between humans was unlikely but stressed the importance "of global surveillance to detect virological, epidemiological and clinical changes associated with circulating influenza viruses which may affect human [or animal] health....