Because of the rapid spread of a mysterious epidemic diseases like influenza, starting from Thursday in Hong Kong all schools and kindergartens were closed. The virus has spread to 25 institutions of education and health, but the nature of it is still unknown. The worst assumption made by physicians: mutated disease of avin influenza (bird flu) .
Symptoms of the unknown, but extremely dangerous disease has been recorded and seen at the tens of schoolchildren.
"Till now experts say that there are no reasons for panic, but they recognize that they don't know why the children has died"
On Tuesday one of the hospitalized children died of encephalitis and brain tumors. Seven child named Law Ho-ming was taken to hospital last weekend unconsciously and with a strong fever, says BBC.
Hong Kong is notorious "homeland" of avian influenza. "The first outbreak of avian infection" was here in 1997 and then became the cause of death of 6 people.
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