May 26, 2007 1:33 p.m. EST
Christopher Rizo - AHN Staff Writer
Beijing, China (AHN) - A man has contracted the deadly H5N1 bird flu in China, officials announced Saturday. His case brings the total number of human infections with avian flu reported in China to 25 since 2003.
The unidentified 19-year-old man is a soldier in the Chinese military and is being treated at the People's Liberation Army hospital.
The man reportedly developed symptoms of bird flu: fever, cough and pneumonia on May 9 and was hospitalized on May 14. Xinhua, China's official news agency, reports that laboratory tests on Wednesday confirmed he was infected with bird flu virus strain H5N1.
China has reported 25 human cases of bird flu since 2003 and 15 of those people have died, the government news agency says.
H5N1 bird flu had infected 307 people, including 186 who died, in 12 mainly Asian and African nations as of May 24, according to World Health Organization statistics.
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