China's Ministry of Health on Thursday night confirmed one more human case of bird flu, the sixth in the country.

The patient, surnamed Guo, is a 35-year-old peddler in Suichuan County of Jiangxi Province, east China. The man, who fell ill on Dec. 4 with fever and symptom of pneumonia, is being treated in a local hospital, the ministry said.

The China Disease Prevention and Control Center tested the samples of Guo and found he was infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus.

The Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed new bird flu outbreak in the village Guo lives.

Local health authorities have taken measures to check the spread of the virus and the people who had close contact with the patient are under strict medical observation, with no abnormal clinical symptoms found.

The Ministry of Health has informed the World Health Organization, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and some other countries about the new human case of bird flu.

Earlier Thursday night, the Ministry of Agriculture said a new bird flu case had been confirmed in Guo's village after the death of 1,640 ducks raised by a fellow villager.

The provincial veterinarian department suspected the H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic bird flu was the killer and a state avian flu lab confirmed the suspicion on Thursday, the ministry said.

Veterinarian authorities in Jiangxi have culled 15,000 poultry within three kilometers of the affected area as soon as the outbreak was reported.

Source: Xinhua