A 24-year-old man died of H5N1 bird flu in Beijing in November 2003 – that’s three months before China admitted to H5N1 in chickens, and two years before it owned up to its first human case in November 2005. It’s a revelation someone, somewhere, is trying to suppress.
The report, published on Thursday by Chinese scientists in The New England Journal of Medicine (vol 354, p 2731) did not make clear whether this case was known before and kept quiet, or only recently discovered. Samples were initially taken from the man to make sure he didn’t have SARS. The authors…
