WHO considers that there is no increased risk of avian influenza

2010-11-19 HKT 00:17

World Health Organization believes that there is no increased risk of avian influenza.
A spokesman for the view that although there 7 years our first human infection, but overall no big change.

In Hong Kong, the government inter-departmental meeting held to discuss avian influenza, the Food and Health Secretary York Chow said Hong Kong is facing the risk did not increase significantly.

For the 59-year-old patient went to Tuen Mun Hospital for treatment, but had not been infected with H5N1 bird flu detected, Dr Chow said that when a disease long before the emergence of the doctor the first time is difficult to think of the disease, he said usually very difficult to diagnosis and treatment of the first cases, but cases of the disease, the medical staff immediately vigilant and take appropriate action.