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Posted: January 04 2017 at 8:13am |
China reports 2 more H7N9 avian flu cases
Two of China's provinces reported two new H7N9 avian flu cases over the past few days, raising the number of infections in the fifth wave of disease activity to 21. On Jan 1 the government media reported a case in Guizhou province in south-central China, according to reports translated and posted by ***********, an infectious disease news message board. The patient is 49 years old and was hospitalized on Dec 27, then transferred and placed in isolation on Dec 29. The report suggests that the patient is a poultry seller. The second case was reported in Jiangxi province in southeastern China. A statement today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said the patient is a 53-year-old man from Jingdezhen who is hospitalized in critical condition in Nanchang. The new cases lift the overall global total from H7N9 since it was first detected in humans in 2013 to 829, according to a case list kept by ***********. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2017/01/news-scan-jan-03-2017 |
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Chicken trader falls victim to killer flu
China | Jan 4, 2017 Health authorities in Guizhou have found another person with H7N9 avian influenza, taking the number of human infections of the highly pathogenic strain to 19 this winter. The patient, a 49-year-old male chicken trader, was being treated in hospital in Qiannan prefecture as authorities scrambled to try and prevent the infection from spreading. Of the 19 cases of the H7N9 bird flu, at least three people are known to have died. Regional fears of a major outbreak have been raised by a record outbreak of bird flu in poultry in South Korea as well as infections in birds in Japan. The last major bird flu outbreak in China - from late 2013 to early 2014 - killed 36 people and caused massive economic losses. Chinese authorities have now culled more than 170,000 birds in four provinces since October and closed some live poultry markets after people and birds were infected by strains of the avian flu. The outbreak restricted to poultry has been the H5N6 type, another highly pathogenic strain. But the H7N9 strain, while highly pathogenic in humans - it causes severe respiratory disease - is not virulent among birds, making it nearly impossible for farmers to detect. http://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news.php?id=178107 |
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