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Bird flu reached the campus
48 school female clerk were sent to Princess Margaret, verify samples of bird flu infection. (Liu Ziwen photo) infectious disease experts warn, bird flu in Hong Kong coincided with the winter period of high vulnerability to "birds flu" and "chicken flu" attack. Director of the Centre for Health Protection Thomas Tsang stressed that female clerks through contact with sick birds infected with avian flu micro opportunity, the risk of outbreak of avian flu in Hong Kong has not increased.

Eleven-year-old female clerk son (arrows indicated) had flu-like symptoms, waiting for test results to be isolated

• Mother last night by the two ambulance personnel wearing protective clothing to Princess Margaret Hospital isolation, sampling the bird flu did a quick test results are expected this morning. Female clerks in the past in good health, no recent travel history
  Gull died the following day confirmed the Infected
• Centre for Health Protection announced yesterday, 13 October, Yuen Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School basketball court next to the channel has a Black-headed Gull, 48 female clerks without wearing a mask, hand picked up the black-headed gulls in the school office box, then inform the AFCD seized. Gull died the following day, yesterday, the preliminary test results show that the H5 avian influenza virus were positive, are being used for further testing.Woman living in Yuen Long District Clerk Wednesday (14) presented with fever, diarrhea and sore throat and other upper respiratory symptoms, consulted a private doctor yesterday. The eleven-year-old son Tuesday has fever and cough and respiratory symptoms has recovered. .
  Yuen Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School this year closed one day cleansing. (Photo left Lan Qing)
  Black-headed Gull from northeast China and Russia. (Picture)
  Avian InfluenzaSchool closed Chiu Lut Sau Yuen cleaningLiving with female clerks six family members had contact with sick birds AFCD staff, private clinics, staff, and school staff a total of twenty people under medical supervision. The school has stepped up disinfection and cleaning yesterday, today closed one day and then thoroughly washed. Black-headed Gull from discovery to seize, stay in school hours, teachers and students a sense of not yet received any other reports. CHP depending on the test results, teachers and students continue to follow up the situation.Dr Tsang said that Hong Kong were found scattered every winter migratory birds infected with avian influenza virus, avian influenza virus from person to person but the chance is low, there is no increased risk of a major outbreak. He estimated that female clerks bird flu infection is very low, generally upper respiratory tract infection by the son of a higher chance. He reminded the public not to hand contact with sick birds died, should call 1823 to inform the AFCD.Infectious disease expert Lo Wing-lok explained, birds are the natural host H5 virus, avian influenza is usually a high incidence of late winter to early next year, down south because of migratory birds winter in Hong Kong, or with a virus disease among birds. New Year holidays, the market gathered a large number of live chickens, but also increase the risk of transmission of avian influenza, it is most vulnerable to winter "bird flu" and "chicken flu" attack, but the risk of micro-human transmission. He believes that this individual case, the clinical characterization of patients with bird flu do not like, do not increase the risk of a major outbreak in Hong Kong. Hong Kong University infection and infectious disease center also Ho Pak-leung Director of the Centre that the dead chickens, dead birds with the virus as compared to lower the overall risk of avian influenza that has not increased accordingly.-p;.  http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20111216/00174_001.htmlVideo in Chinese at the link