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Article: Health ministry calls for continued prevention, control of bird flu
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 20, 2006
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Health ministry calls for continued prevention, control of bird
flu
BEIJING, March 20 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Health on Monday
urged the country's health system to continue the prevention and
control of bird flu in humans.
Health departments should continue leading and guiding the
prevention and control of bird flu, strengthen surveillance, staff
training and lab testing, and rigidly carry on the reporting and
screening of pneumonia cases of unknown cause, said the ministry at a
teleconference.
Treatment of human cases of bird flu should be improved and
information sharing and coordination with other departments are
needed, according to the ministry.
The ministry has intensified ...