Bird flu fears mount as teenager dies (01-20 13:01)
A teenager infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus has died in central China, the country's third fatality from the disease this month. Xinhua News Agency said the student, surnamed Wu, died in Hunan. It did not give any other details.In a report on Monday, Xinhua said Wu, 16, fell ill on January 8 in his hometown in southwestern Guizhou and was transferred to a hospital in Hunan on January 16, when his condition worsened.He had had contact with poultry, the report said without giving other details.Two other people sickened with the virus have died this month. One was a 27-year-old woman in Shandong province and the other was a 19-year-old woman who died in Beijing on January 5.
article from http://thestandard.com.hk (yeah apparently i do read online newspapers from other countries =p as my tutor once told us, media can be used for many things- one of them is propaganda. And one news agency might not show or tell the same scenario as others. so i prefer watching news from all news agency. haha. )
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Its always about birds. Now. Humans?
Posted by Miss T at 6:44 PM
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