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My thanks to Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers for picking up and tweeting this latest report from the Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province website that – for the second day in a row – informs us of a new H7N9 case in that Province.
This time, it appears to be a 65 year old woman from Yangjiang City who is reported to be in critical condition.
Yangjiang is a coastal prefecture-level city with a population of over 2.6 million people in southwestern Guangdong province, roughly 240 kilometers from Hong Kong.
Yangjiang found one case of human infection with the H7N9 avian flu
2013-12-16 19:59:39 Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission | Views ( 85 )
December 16, the Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission informed Yangjiang confirmed one case of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza.
Patients Zhang, female, 65 years old, who lives in Yangjiang City, as retirees, current patients in critical condition. After receiving the report, the Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission sent the day of epidemiologists and clinical experts to assist in the epidemiological investigation of Yangjiang and guiding patient treatment.
Xinhua News, in the past few minutes, has released the following report:
China reports second H7N9 case in two days
Dec 16,2013
GUANGZHOU, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- South China's Guangdong Province on Monday reported the second H7N9 bird flu case since Sunday.
The female patient, Zhang, 65, resident of the city of Yangjiang, is in serious condition, the provincial health authority said in a statement.
Guangdong on Sunday confirmed an H7N9 case from a man, aged 39, who is also in serious condition. The province has warned the public of the transmission after the virus was found in its live poultry markets.
Lin Shaochun, vice governor of Guangdong, warned at a meeting on Sunday that the province had entered a season when human infections of H7N9 are highly likely to occur.
The Chinese mainland has reported 142 human infections of the deadly bird flu virus since it emerged in March.
Earlier this month, Hong Kong also confirmed its first two H7N9 cases, including an Indonesian national and a mainland resident.
