China confirmed on Tuesday that the country's first human case of the H5N1 bird flu virus in 2003 was two years earlier than originally reported, prompting the UN's health agency to call for greater transparency.
The case had spurred questions about whether there might have been other human H5N1 infections in China prior to what had been its first reported human case, near the end of 2005.
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