Gao Qiang denies that there have been fatal cases of human infection with avian influenza in Beijing, Liaoning Province

Introduction: Beijing, Nov 30 Xinhua Guoxin Office held a press conference today In response to questions from reporters, Gao Qiang, Minister of health, refuted the untrue reports about China's concealment of human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza According to overseas media reports, a Japanese expert in Germany said, "China has concealed the situation of human infection with avian influenza, and there are still people in China who are still infected." Gao said he took note of the report, which ignored the facts and maligned After reading this report, we immediately got in touch with the World Health Organization The World Health Organization held a press conference the other day to clarify this fact First, the Japanese expert is not an expert hired by the World Health Organization, nor has he been recommended to China to investigate the outbreak of avian influenza, let alone Hunan Second, cooperation between China and the World Health Organization is smooth, and there is no problem of concealing the epidemic situation in China The Japanese expert himself recently published a statement on the Internet, saying that his report was incorrect and misleading, and asked for clarification Gao also said that he recently saw some distorted and untrue reports from other channels There is a "Bo Xun" news network saying on the Internet that there have been more than 70 cases of avian influenza in Liaoning Province, 14 of them have died, and each person's age, address and gender are listed on the Internet in great detail The Ministry of health immediately verified with the local public security organs according to the address it provided Nine of them had returned the information and seven did not exist at all There is no such person in the local household registration There are also two people, one is working in Jiangsu, the other is married to Chongqing six or seven years ago Gao added that the network also reported that a pigeon keeper in Beijing fell ill on the 24th and died at the China Japan Friendship Hospital on the 27th He immediately asked the China Japan Friendship Hospital to check The other side sent information From the 24th to the 27th, six people died in the hospital Five of them are old people in their 70s, only one is a patient in their 20s with acute leukemia, and there is no 35 year old dead person available online at all Gao Qiang said that he felt that except for the hope of creating a bit of social chaos, I couldn't guess what its purpose was.