(Corrects headline and para 1 to read H5N6, not N5H6)
BEIJING (Reuters) – The health authority in southern China’s Guangdong province said on Wednesday that a single case of a human being infected with the H5N6 strain of bird flu has been reported in the city of Dongguan.
The infected patient, a 53-year-old male, is being treated in hospital, the Health Commission of Guangdong Province said in a statement, adding that experts considered the risk of transmission to be low at this stage.
This story corrects headline and para 1 to read H5N6, not N5H6.
(Reporting by Colin Qian and Tom Daly, Editing by Louise Heavens)
