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GENEVA, June 4 (Reuters) - A Chinese soldier has died from bird flu, taking the death toll from the virus in the world's most populous country to 16, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.
The United Nations health agency quoted China's Ministry of Health as saying the 19-year-old male soldier, who was serving in the southeastern province of Fujian, died on June 3.
The soldier, surnamed Cheng, was diagnosed with the H5N1 virus on May 18 and had been receiving treatment at a military hospital.
China has had 25 laboratory-confirmed cases of bird flu, but this is the first death to be reported since March. Worldwide the virus has killed 188 people out of 309 known cases since it re-emerged in Hong Kong in 2003.
GENEVA, June 4 (Reuters) - A Chinese soldier has died from bird flu, taking the death toll from the virus in the world's most populous country to 16, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.
The United Nations health agency quoted China's Ministry of Health as saying the 19-year-old male soldier, who was serving in the southeastern province of Fujian, died on June 3.
The soldier, surnamed Cheng, was diagnosed with the H5N1 virus on May 18 and had been receiving treatment at a military hospital.
China has had 25 laboratory-confirmed cases of bird flu, but this is the first death to be reported since March. Worldwide the virus has killed 188 people out of 309 known cases since it re-emerged in Hong Kong in 2003.
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