STUDY ON THE CODE OF HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA BASED ON ICD-10

Since 1981,the avian influenza virus that can infect human include H7N7、H5N1、H9N2、H7N2、H7N3、H5N2、H10N7、H7N9.Their clinical manifestations and mortality rates are quite different.But the code of human avian influenza based on ICD-10(the second edition)only has Category J09.Because the human avian influenza which has high mortality rate appears,we suggest increase suborder to classify the diseases caused by human avian influenza virus,in other to record,analyze and compare the disease data.