Belgian man tested for bird flu
08/03/2006 - 16:27:53A Belgian man who came back from China last week has checked into a Brussels hospital with flu symptoms, and doctors are testing him for bird flu, an official said today.
The man returned from a rural Chinese region where bird flu in endemic on Saturday and decided to go to hospital on Monday after getting high fever and strong headaches, said health ministry spokesman Karim Ibourki.
“Doctors have decided to put him into isolation and are running tests for H5N1,” Ibourki said. “They're testing him just to make sure.”
The man, whose name or age were not given, is in the Sint-Pieters Hospital in downtown Brussels, Ibourki said.
No human cases of bird flu have been registered in EU countries so far.
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