Shanghai must enhance prevention-measures against Highly
Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or bird flu, to guarantee public
security and residents' health, Shanghai Mayor Han
Zheng said at yesterday's regular government work
conference.
On the evening of March 24, the Ministry of Health confirmed
that a 29-year-old woman in Shanghai had died from bird flu.
The city's Party Committee and Municipal government are paying
great attention to this and taking prompt measures to enhance
prevention against the epidemic disease, Mayor Han said.
The local health department has required hospitals and medical
institutes to operate a daily reporting system and all the
districts and counties to establish special emergency-response
systems.
(Shanghai Daily March 29, 2006)
