Man dies of bird flu in E China province
NANJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — A man in east China’s Jiangsu Province died of bird flu on Sunday, the provincial health department reported.    The 24-year-old, surnamed Lu, developed fever, chills and other symptoms on Nov. 24. He was hospitalized on Nov. 27 after being diagnosed with “lower left [...]

BEIJING, Dec. 3 — The top food and drug agency is streamlining approval procedures for importing drugs to treat the estimated 85,000 patients in the country suffering from full-blown AIDS.    The move came after China released its HIV/AIDS prevalence and prevention assessment report for this year on Thursday, which stated that about 700,000 people in the [...]

Chinese farmer cleared of HIV six years after testing positive
BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — A farmer in northeast China’s Jilin Province has tested HIV negative, six years after being diagnosed as HIV-positive, according to the provincial Center of Disease Control (CDC).    Wen Congcheng, from Erdaogou Village in Chuanying District, Jilin city, first tested HIV positive in [...]

China’s mainland, HK, Macao hold joint exercise on avian flu
HONG KONG, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — Health authorities of the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao held a joint communication exercise Monday shortly after a man in east China’s Jiangsu Province died of avian flu on Sunday.    The exercise was to test their cooperation and coordination in [...]

Contaminated leukemia drug victims to receive compensation
BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — Shanghai Hualian Pharmaceutical Co. plans to compensate victims of its contaminated leukemia drug, methotrexate, a senior official with China’s drug watchdog said here on Monday.
    Wu Zhen, State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) deputy director, said at a press conference that the Shanghai-based company was [...]

China shuts down 300 drug, medical instrument manufacturers
BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — China has shut down 300 drug and medical instrument manufacturers for bad quality products in a national campaign since last July, said China’s drug watchdog here Monday.    The campaign to correct malpractice in the pharmacy industry is showing results, said Wu Zhen, deputy director [...]

Official: Panama tainted medicine tragedy reflects “loophole” in import management
BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) — The Panama medicine deaths have reflected managerial differences between different countries, a senior official with China’s drug watchdog said here on Monday.    ”Management on imported drugs varies among different countries,” said Wu Zhen, State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) deputy director, at [...]

China’s second HIV/AIDS vaccine undergoes first phase of clinical trials
BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) — The first phase of clinical trials on China’s second homemade HIV/AIDS vaccine began at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing last weekend.    The vaccine, jointly created by the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Vaccine & Serum [...]

U.S. doctor hears evidence from Chinese germ warfare victims
HANGZHOU, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — There is evidence to show Japanese troops used glanders bacterium to kill innocent Chinese civilians around 1942, says U.S. doctor Michael Franzblau after visiting surviving victims in east China’s Zhejiang Province.    Franzblau, an 81-year-old professor of dermatology at the University of California, visited [...]

China denies foreign media reports of African swine fever outbreak
BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — China on Wednesday denied foreign media reports of African swine fever outbreaks in its north-eastern province of Heilongjiang.    Pigs at 76 swine farms and households in 14 towns of Heilongjiang’s cities of Hulin and Mishan and county of Jidong have been tested [...]