After SARS and bird flu, Asia wary of new virus

[Um...Asia also battled H5N1 Bird Flu in 2009.....China had an outbreak earlier this year, of confirmed H5N1 in HUMANS.....I guess they forgot to mention that.....here's my list:

Jiangsu - Outbreak 12/08. 376,000 birds culled. All asymptomatic.


Beijing
Chaoyang District
Wong Yan (19-year old female) from Chaoyang District, Beijing. She developed symptoms on 24 Dec 2008, was hospitalized. Died: 1/5/09 Health Care worker had fever and recovered. Confirmed


Shandong Province
Jinan City
Zhang (27 year old female) Onset: 1/5. Adm: 1/11. worsened on 1/13. transferred to isolation on 1/15. Recon: Fifth Peoples Hosp.: 1/10. Shandong Provincial Hosp: 1/11. Jinan City Hospital. Died: 1/17 The source of her infection is presently under investigation. Confirmed.
Health emergency listed on 1/24.


Hunan Province
Changsha
Peng (2 year old female) from Hunan. Hospitalized in Luliang City, Shanxi Province. Onset: 1/7 Clinic: 1/13. Xiaoyi City Hosp: 1/14, x-rays, trans. to Childrens Hosp. in Taiyan City. Trans. to Fourth People’s Hosp. on 1/17. Recovered. Home. Confirmed.



Guizhou Province
Liping County, Zhou Village
Wu (16 m) Adm: 1/16 Onset: 1/8 Critical condition. The case had exposure to sick and dead poultry. Hospitalized in Hunan Province, Huaihua City. Confirmed. Died: 1/20.


Guiyang District
Zhou (29) From: Guiyang District. Adm: 1/15. Sym onset:
Confirmed


Xinjiang Province
Urumqi
Zhang (31) From: Urumqi / Uygur Autonomous Region. Northwest area of Tan Cuong. Went to live poultry market. Onset: 1/10. Died: 1/23. Confirmed.


Guangxi Province
Beiliu City
Liang (18 m) Adm: 1/24 Yulin City Red Cross Hospital. Recon: local clinic on 1/21. Onset: 1/19. Contact with dead poultry. Confirmed. Died: 1/26.



By Tan Ee Lyn Tan Ee Lyn – 13 mins ago
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asia battled SARS and H5N1 bird flu in 2003 and has improved its health infrastructure but there is a wide gulf in how prepared countries in the region are to fight swine flu.

Countries around the world have moved to contain the spread of a possible pandemic after a new swine flu outbreak killed 103 people in Mexico. Twenty cases have been identified in the United States and six in Canada, with no deaths reported.
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