Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust said the confirmed case was a child who had attended the hospital's accident and emergency unit.
It is the first confirmed case of the virus in Hong Kong, local medical officials said.
The first confirmed case in the UK was recorded at a nursery in Buckinghamshire back in March.
The first confirmed case in the UK was recorded at a nursery in Buckinghamshire in March 2012.
And on Friday, Kuwait announced the first confirmed case in the Middle East.
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The argument over vaccination has rumbled on in the UK almost since the first confirmed case of the disease in February.
The Agriculture Department confirmed the first case of mad cow disease in America on December 23, 2003, in a cow born in Alberta, Canada, in April 1997, only four months before the United States and Canada began banning the use of brain and spinal cord tissue in cattle feed.
"U.S. beef producers are the best in the world, and I have full confidence in their ability to produce a high quality and safe product, " Dean said in a speech in Ames, Iowa, home of the National Veterinary Services Lab, which confirmed the case.
Stewart Moffat, farming at Wigton in the Lake District, lost all his cattle and sheep on 4 April, the 1, 000th confirmed case in what the NFU is now terming "the world's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth".
China suspended all flights into and out of Mexico after a 25-year-old Mexican man who arrived Thursday in Shanghai from Mexico City became the Asian country's first confirmed case of the virus.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that individuals familiar with the case have confirmed that the expert network firm used in the scheme was Gerson Lerhman.
Separately, a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity and was not authorized to discuss the case publicly confirmed only that investigators had an image of a potential suspect but did not know his identity.
The city prosecutor's office confirmed the details of the case Wednesday and said it was looking into whether her case was connected to the other deaths.
If the virus is confirmed it will be the first case on the island for five weeks and a major setback in the fight to eradicate the disease.
The decision follows confirmation of a further case of the disease at a farm in Norfolk - the first case to be confirmed since 12 August.
The Chinese recipient, Li Guoxing, died in July of unknown causes, Guo Shuzhong, a doctor involved in the case, confirmed to CNN.
Police in Delhi have confirmed that the case has not been closed.
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Over two weeks since the last case was confirmed on the island, officials have said that some animal movement restrictions there could be lifted in around a month's time.
The Air Force confirmed arrangements have been reached in the sensitive case involving the division's first female B-52 pilot.
Now the council has confirmed that "a case for damages" is due to be heard in another division of the High Court.
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Sass said he worked as an informant for the U.S. Secret Service on a counterfeiting case, which the agency confirmed.
On Saturday a seven-year-old girl became Beijing's first confirmed case of the H7N9 strain.
The CPS earlier confirmed it had received files in relation to the case.
After the case, a spokesman for Torbay Care Trust confirmed a serious case review had been convened, but said details of an individual's care could not be discussed.
The Serious Fraud Office later confirmed it was in talks with the FSA about the case.
"They are not just untrue - the exam board confirmed this - but are of no relevance to the tribunal case whatsoever, " a spokesman said.
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The case, which was confirmed by the Vatican, also unleashed a wave of abuse allegations around the world.
This ruling, albeit in an unrelated case, confirmed the interpretation of this law applied by judges in Milan to the judge-bribing trials.
"It is not helpful to have a case confirmed near the border, " said Mr Jones, who admitted hopes of Wales escaping the outbreak were looking increasingly remote.
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