Location of Outbreak - Credit ECDC
# 7080
The ECDC has just published a brief epidemiological update on the H7N9 avian flu outbreak in China.
Included is a very handy listing of cases with age, sex, date of onset (when available), severity, status, and possible route of exposure.
Epidemiological update: Seven new confirmed cases of novel influenza A virus, A(H7N9) in China
05 Apr 2013
ECDC
Since the last epidemiological update of 3 April, seven additional cases including two fatalities were reported by Chinese authorities. For the first time a child, aged four years, was reported. The other six cases are aged between 48 and 79 years. The date of symptom onset was 20 and 29 March 2013 for the two newly reported cases for whom it is available (Table 1 and Figure 2). No new provinces were affected.
There are now sixteen confirmed cases including six deaths. The median age is 50 years with a range between 4 and 87 years; six of them are females. The date of symptom onset of cases was between 19 February and 29 March 2013 (Table 1 and Figure 2). To date, four adjacent provinces are affected: Shanghai, Jiangsu (6 cases each), Zhejiang (3) and Anhui (1) (Figure 1).
