HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday urged the public not to panic after the southern Chinese city reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months in a two-year-old boy.
Authorities said the Chinese boy was in serious condition after testing positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza and the city had raised the bird flu alert level to 'serious' as well as increasing checks on live chickens imports.
The boy lives in the neighbouring Chinese province of Guangdong but came to seek treatment in Hong Kong on May 26.
'The boy's parents are all along asymptomatic, which means the chance of a human-to-human transmission is slim,' a spokesman for the Centre for Health Protection said in a statement. http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_806334.html
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