TAIYUAN, Jan. 20 (Chinese media) -- No bird flu epidemic has been detected among
the 67 people who had been in close contact with a two-year-old patient in north
China's Shanxi Province, said an official on Tuesday.
Three of them had been discharged from medical observation and the others
had not been detected having bird flu virus, said the official from the
provincial health bureau.
The patient surnamed Peng was still in a critical condition. Doctors had
been trying to bring the virus under control.
Peng was found ill on Jan. 7 in central Hunan Province. Her grandparents
took her to Luliang City of Shanxi on Jan. 11.
Peng is one of the four bird flu patients found in China in 2009. The other
three have died of the virus, including a 16-year-old male student in Hunan
Province on Tuesday morning, a 27-year-old woman surnamed Zhang in east Shandong
Province on Saturday and a 19-year-old woman named Huang Yanqing who died in
Beijing on Jan. 5.
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