BREAKING NEWS: China says "suspected" bird flu patient dies

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A woman suspected of being infected with bird flu has died in Beijing, the local health bureau said on Tuesday of what would be the first bird flu death in the country in almost a year.
The woman died on Monday. Her age was not known, Xinhua news agency said. There were no other details.
"The report is true, but there are no details so far," Zhang Jianshu, a spokesman with the publicity office of the Beijing Health Bureau, told Reuters by telephone.
The World Health Organisation's China office was not immediately able to provide comment.
Xinhua said the woman, from eastern Fujian province, had bought nine ducks at a market in Hebei province, which surrounds Beijing, and then gutted the birds.

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"An emergency meeting was convened in Beijing on Monday evening to handle the bird flu case," the report said.

Since the H5N1 virus resurfaced in Asia in 2003, it has killed more than 200 people in a dozen countries, according to the World Health Organisation.

Experts fear the constantly mutating virus could change into a form easily transmitted from person to person and potentially kill millions of people worldwide.

The last known reported fatality in China was in February last year when a 44-year-old woman died in the southern province of Guangdong.

At least 20 people have died of bird flu in China to date.

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Update from Reuters:

A 19-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the Beijing Municipal Bureau and Hong Kong's government said on Tuesday.

"The woman fell ill on Dec. 24, was hospitalised on Dec. 27 and died on Monday (at) 7.20 am," the bureau said in a faxed statement.

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