China reports a bird flu outbreak in a village in Hunan province. Today the SCMP reports on the death of a 12 year old girl from that village:

A 12-year old girl has died from flu-like symptoms in a Hunan village where the mainland's third outbreak of bird flu in a week was confirmed. He Yin and her 10-year-old brother fell ill about a week ago at their home in the village, Wantang, after eating a sick chicken that had died, according to their farmer father, He Tieguang . She died soon after reaching the Children's Hospital in the provincial capital, Changsha .

So far there is no evidence linking her death with the outbreak of bird flu in Wantang.

Doctors and pharmacies in Guangzhou have accused Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche of dumping Tamiflu medicine close to the end of its shelf life on the mainland market.

One doctor said he bought his first batch of the drug in August and the medicine had a January 2006 expiry date. A second batch bought last month was good until May and the last batch bought last week had a January 2007 expiry date. "The normal practice is to give us medicine with at least one year of shelf life remaining, but they told me they had no more stocks. They only have 2006 stocks. I think they are clearing old stocks. This is so unethical," he said.