Shanxi girl survives bout with bird flu
(02-04 14:35)
A three-year-old girl in northern Shanxi has become the youngest person in the nation to survive bird flu, authorities said, after five other people died of the disease this year.
The girl, surnamed Peng, fell ill on January 7 after having been exposed to live poultry in markets and was diagnosed with the H5N1 strain of the virus nine days later.
Peng, whose mother died early last month of pneumonia, was discharged on Tuesday after being hospitalized in a critical condition.
''Peng is the first patient to have recovered and been discharged among China's eight recent reported cases of bird flu, and she is currently the youngest patient in the country to have been successfully treated,'' , the Shanxi health department said.
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