China News Net telegraph, January 8th:  According to CCTV report, Beijing Health Bureau held a press briefing in the afternoon of Jan 7th on a recently happened case that a person was infected with high pathogenic bird flu in Beijing. The experts said the probability for human to human transmission was almost zero, the mass civilians could set their hearts at rest.

Jan 6th Beijng Health bureau reported a diagnosed high pathogenic bird flu case of human transmission in Beijing, the sufferer, someone surnamed Huang was taken bad in Dec 24th, 2008, failed to respond to any medical treatment and died in Jan 5th.

At present Beijing has started level 2 emergency response mechanism, strengthened the supervision and precaution of relevant epidemic; set Youan Hospital and Ditan Hospital as designated hospitals for human cases of bird flu; established expert groups in the county and district level for immidate consultation if someone was infected.

According to instructions, the latency period of bird flu is usually less than 7 days if a human is infected. After this human case of bird flu in Beijing, medical organization made medical observation on the 116 people who had intimate contact with the sufferer, until now no abnormal clinical manifestation was found.

As introductions said, bird flu often emerges on sparrows, fowls and migrant birds are relatively easy to suffer from this kind of disease. People don't have to worry too much about getting bird flu if they haven't touched living fowls or sparrows and their dejection before. Even the isolated case that human get bird flu exists, there's no evidence that this virus can effectively prevail.