8-year-old Chinese girl cured of bird flu

China China state media say an eight-year-old girl has been released from a hospital after successful treatment for bird flu.
The Xinhua (shin-wah) News Agency says she is the sixth person cured of the disease in China.

The girl showed symptoms of fever and pneumonia on April 16 and was hospitalized a week later.

Xinhua says doctors used minimal antibiotics during her treatment to avoid the risk of fungal infections or “bacterial maladjustments.”

Xinhua cited the girl’s mother as saying that the girl fed chickens and ducks at the family’s rural home on the outskirts of her town—a likely indicator that she was infected by sick poultry.

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