Saturday, November 20, 2010

Dr Chow noted that bird flu patients have some improvement in women

[20/11 Saturday 14:00]


Confirmed infected with H5N1 avian influenza fifty-year-old woman, still in the Princess Margaret Hospital for isolation and treatment, Health Secretary York Chow said the patient's condition remains serious, but there have been little improved from the original admission, need to use hundred percent oxygen, reduced to only seventy percent, indicating the effectiveness of certain drugs. Dr Chow noted that the patient is respiratory tract infection and pneumonia, take some time for treatment.

Dr Chow added that AFCD in the past three days, testing thirty farms in Hong Kong and Mainland chickens supplied to Hong Kong samples, of which half the sample had been no abnormal laboratory. Are investigating the origin of the virus, he said, will monitor in close contact with her people. Dr Chow stressed that the current only in one case, the port is temporarily not raise alert.

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