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Chinese girl dies of pneumonia, not bird flu virus
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-10-27 21:31 The death of a Chinese girl with flu-like symptoms
in a village where a bird flu outbreak had been reported was caused by pneumonia
acute respiratory difficulty, local health authority cited initial blood tests
result as saying on Thursday.
Latest tests on the girl's blood sample have turned out negative for the
avian influenza virus, and doctors said she had died of severe pneumonia with
acute respiratory difficulty, according to the provincial center for disease
prevention and control.
The 12-year-old He Yin died recently after eating a dead chicken in Wantang
Village, in Xiangtan County of central China's Hunan Province, where the latest
outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza was reported several days ago.
There has been worries that the girl, who showed symptoms of high fever and
cough, was killed by bird flu.
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