Beijing, Sep. 7 : With the surfacing of 100 new H1N1 cases since Friday, Chinese health experts have warned that the total cases nationwide will soon double to 10,000, as the peak of the outbreak has begun.

“The recent clusters of school outbreaks are just the start of the peak season, which will feature widespread infections.

Hong Kong  - A nature reserve popular with schoolchildren near Hong Kong's border with China was shut down Friday after a dead bird found there tested positive for the H5N1 avian-flu virus.

The decision to close the Mai Po reserve came after the discovery of more than 20 dead ducks, chickens and wild birds believed to have been washed ashore from neighbouring mainland China.

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Hong Kong  - Nine more dead birds have been found on beaches in Hong Kong, officials said Wednesday, as fears grew of a major unreported avian-flu outbreak in mainland China.

The dead ducks, chickens and birds found on Hong Kong's Lantau island Tuesday brought to 21 the number of birds found in the past six days. Most if not all are believed to have washed up from China.

Hong Kong - Experts were carrying out tests Tuesday on dead birds washed up on Hong Kong beaches amid fears of a huge unreported avian-flu outbreak in neighboring mainland China.

Beijing  - A 21-year-old woman was confirmed infected with bird flu in central China's Hunan Province, state-run media reported Saturday.

The peasant farmer surnamed Shu fell ill on January 23 and was hospitalized at the county's People's Hospital three days later, Xinhua quoted the provincial health bureau as saying.

Beijing, Jan. 27 : An 18-year-old man died from bird flu on Monday in south China''s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the fifth human death from the H5N1 virus in China this year.

According to a press release posted on the website of the Ministry of Health, the man surnamed Liang fell ill on January 19 in Beiliu City of Guangxi.

Hong Kong  - Hong Kong issued a city-wide health alert Tuesday after China reported its fifth human death from the H5N1 bird flu virus so far this year.

The latest victim was an 18-year-old man from the Guangxi region who developed symptoms on January 19 and died on Monday, according to officials in China.

Beijing  - Chinese authorities on Tuesday reported the death of an 18-year-old man in southern China from avian influenza, bringing the number of bird flu deaths in
2009 to five.

The man, identified as Liang, died on Monday of the H5N1 virus strain in a hospital in the southern Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the health ministry said in a statement posted on its website.

Washington, Jan 26 : Scientists in Singapore and China have identified genes that play an important role in the development of psoriasis, a common chronic skin disease.

In three independent studies, researchers at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the Anhui Medical University, China, examined genetic variants in the human genomes of a large cohort of patients with psorasis and healthy controls in the Chinese population.