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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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September 4, 2008
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Surveillance
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Coroner to probe girl's death

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Centre for Health Protection

The Coroner's Court will investigate the death of a six-year-old girl who died at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital on September 3.

 

She came down with fever, abdominal pain, headache and vomiting on September 1 and attended the hospital's accident and emergency department the next day and was discharged after treatment.

 

She then saw a private doctor September 3 and was taken to the hospital in the evening and later died.

 

She tested negative for influenza-A and B, parainfluenza, adenovirus and respiratory syncytial virus and enterovirus.

 

Investigations are underway to ascertain whether she died from an infective or a non-infective cause. She had spent time in Guangdong and Hong Kong in August.

 

Centre for Health Protection staff have visited her school to give health advice. The school has had no outbreak of infectious disease.