Friday, January 10, 2014

Jiangsu Province: Media Reports H7N9 Case

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The reports this morning continue to come in from Mainland China, with Chinese media reporting that Jiangsu Province has announced  their second H7N9 case of the New Year.   So far, I’ve not found any official statement on the Jiangsu Provincial Health Department website, but multiple media sources are reporting this latest case.

 

So far today – in addition to this latest one - we have 1 case reported from Fujian Province,  2 Cases from Guangdong Province, and 2 cases from Zhejiang Province.

 

Two media reports.  First from China News Network, followed by a report from Hong Kong’s Metroradio News summarizing all six cases reported today.

 

Jiangsu Province 1 new case of human infection of bird flu H7N9

At 19:47 on January 10 2014

Source: China News Network

BEIJING, Jan. 10 Nanjing Electric (Lu Hui) Jiangsu Provincial Health Department notified the afternoon of January 10, Jiangsu new confirmed cases of H7N9 avian influenza case of human infection. Up to now, a total of Jiangsu confirmed two cases of human infection with H7N9 avian influenza.

Jiangsu Province Health Department informed that the afternoon of the 10th, to declare a patient, male, 54 years old, 9 January afternoon in Nanjing confirmed infected human cases of avian influenza H7N9, now a hospital in Nanjing treatment, his condition is stable.


Another patient Qu a, female, 54 years old, now living in Nanjing. The evening of January 7, Jiangsu Province, the expert group for people infected with H7N9 bird flu diagnosis confirmed cases. Currently the treatment of patients in a hospital in Nanjing. (End)

 

 

Fujian, a man died after dyeing H7N9 bird flu


10/01/2014 9:01 PM

Mainland Six more confirmed H7N9 avian influenza infection, one of whom died.

Deaths from Fujian, the deceased was a 38-year-old man, who had tuberculosis, pneumoconiosis and other diseases, living in Hui'an, he developed symptoms on June 3, the day before due to exacerbations, Quanzhou stay hospital treatment, morning disease was diagnosed, but am dead.

Guangdong Nanhai District of Foshan two women are diagnosed with disease, two were 42 years old and 59 years old, one of whom engage in wholesale sales of live poultry, live birds of another person without obvious exposure history. Both currently hospitalized, authorities means that the two symptoms minor, is a sporadic cases, no epidemiological link.

Zhejiang province also added two infections. Patient was a 79-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man were in Jiaxing and Ningbo in hospital in a critical condition.

In addition, Jiangsu, a 54-year-old man also diagnosed disease, now in Nanjing hospital treatment, his condition is stable.

 

As we saw last spring, case reports often come out piecemeal, with each province reporting late in the evening (local time).  As the number increase, keeping track of these cases becomes increasingly difficult, and at some point, may become impractical.

 

While the pace continues to pick up, so far we’ve seen no indication that this virus is transmitting in a sustained or efficient manner among humans.