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arirish
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Posted: February 14 2017 at 12:57pm |
South China province reports 21 H7N9 cases in January
2017-02-15 00:16:22 Xinhua A total of 21 human H7N9 avian flu cases, including 10 fatalities, were reported in south China's Guangdong Province in January, the provincial health authority said Tuesday. Of the 21 infections, five were reported in the capital Guangzhou City. Another five in Foshan and two in Shenzhen. The other cases occurred in cities including Shaoguan, Meizhou, Dongguan and Zhongshan. Beijing also reported a human H7N9 case last week. A number of provinces have rolled out measures to prevent the virus from spreading, with live poultry sales suspended in cities in Sichuan, Hunan, and Zhejiang provinces. H7N9 is a bird flu strain first reported to have infected humans in China in March 2013. Infections usually occur in winter and spring. http://english.cri.cn/12394/2017/02/15/4383s951877.htm |
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Thanks for staying on top of this, arirish. Pretty scary numbers, especially the almost 50% fatality rate in reported cases in Guangdong.
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I'm hearing some stuff about a family cluster in Yunnan but can't find any news reports about it!
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Google translation:
Yunnan Province Health and Life Program website screenshots On February 15, Yunnan Provincial Health Commission reported that the provincial health and health committee from one case from Jiangxi to Yunnan severe cases detected H7N9 virus nucleic acid positive. According to the national and provincial expert consultation, combined with the patient's clinical manifestations, laboratory test results and epidemiological investigation, diagnosed as input H7N9 cases, Yunnan Province, the second case of imported H7N9 cases, the case and the first case of input Sexual H7N9 cases are mother-daughter relationship, there is a common history of live birds. Informed that the patient Yang XX, female, 23 years old, on January 21 a three to Jiangxi Spring Festival, live bird contact history. February 4 return to Kunming, fever symptoms, self-inductance fatigue, self-medication, did not ease. Because of his female diagnosed with H7N9 cases of human infection, as a close contact, at 1:00 on February 8 by the provincial emergency center negative pressure car into the Yunnan Provincial Infectious Diseases isolation treatment. Admission test H7N9 negative, after admission, the disease progress quickly, after repeated testing, confirmed as H7N9 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive. After the outbreak, the Yunnan provincial party committee and government leaders to make important instructions, requiring full treatment of patients, the provincial health workers set up treatment group, mobilize the province to carry out the work of the experts, and invited three national experts from Beijing, Guangdong To participate in the treatment of Yunnan. By the state, the provincial experts to rescue the invalid, the patient Yang XX at 14:03 on February 14 death. At present, the rest of the close contacts did not appear abnormal, did not find people to pass the situation. According to the Yunnan Provincial Center for Disease Control on the province's external environmental monitoring, at present, the province outside the environment did not find H7N9 virus http://society.yunnan.cn/html/2017-02/15/content_4731121.htm Comment: Hopefully just the same exposure, not H2H! |
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