BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- China's Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed another human case of H5N1 bird flu in east China's Anhui Province.

    This is the third confirmed human case of bird flu reported in China.

    A 35-year-old woman farmer surnamed Xu in Xiuning County of Anhui developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on Nov. 11 after contacts with sick and dead poultry. She died on Nov. 22.

    Tests of the woman was H5N1 positive, said China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The ministry has reported the new confirmed case to the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the WHO Beijing Office. It has also informed Hong Kong, Macao and some other countries.

    China on Nov. 16 confirmed first two human cases and one suspected case of H5N1 bird flu.

    The two confirmed cases involve a nine-year-old boy in Xiangtan County of Hunan Province, central China, and a 24-year-old woman farmer in Zongyang County of Anhui Province in the east.

    The boy has been discharged from hospital after recovery. The woman died on Nov. 10.

    The boy's 12-year-old sister, who had similar symptoms as her brother and died on Oct. 17, was reported at meantime as a suspected human case.

    "There is no proof of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the world so far," Chen Xianyi, head of the contingency office of the Ministry of Health, told Xinhua in an interview.

    China has reported 24 bird flu outbreaks this year and have culled millions of poultry and intensified prevention and control efforts.

    Vice Minister of Agriculture Yin Chengjie said Monday that China is facing a "severe" situation in fighting bird flu. The government vowed last week to vaccinate all its 14 billion poultry to fight the epidemic.

    On Tuesday, the State Food and Drug Administration approved its home-made human bird flu vaccine for clinical test, saying pre-clinical trials show the vaccine is fairly safe and effective.

    The country "will step up efforts in order to resolve this bird flu issue," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao on Tuesday's news briefing. Enditem