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Guangdong Province’s Health Department announced their 9th H7N9 case today during their 7pm conference – that of a 31 year old from Shenzhen who fell ill December 31st and was hospitalized on January 4th. While listed as Shenzhen’s second H7N9 case, Hong Kong previously reported two imported cases from that region.
This report from the Ministry of Health & Family planning, which also includes news of the fatal outcome of an earlier case from Guangdong province.
Shenzhen confirmed one case of human infection with the H7N9 avian flu
2014-01-07 17:21:03 Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission
January 7 pm, Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission informed Shenzhen confirmed one case of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza.
Area with patients, male, 31 years old, Shenzhen locals, living in the Jiefang Road, Luohu District, Shenzhen. Without a clear history of exposure to live birds. December 30, 2013 the disease, Bao'an District People's Hospital closed in January 3, 2014 admitted to hospital, give "Tamiflu" treatment, the patient's condition is currently stable. Shenzhen City Health Department has on 35 close contacts under medical observation, and collecting swab samples for correlation detection, were negative.
Also, the first two cases, Dongguan, Hemou, on at 23:20 on January 6 due to multiple organ failure and died.
As of January 7, the province reported a total of nine cases of cases, 1 death. By patient place of residence, Shenzhen two cases, one case in Foshan, Huizhou one case, two cases in Dongguan, Yangjiang 3 cases.
As of this posting, nothing has appeared on the Hong Kong CHP site regarding this latest case, but due to its close proximity to Hong Kong, no doubt we’ll see something official there later today.
While this is the 5th announced case out of mainland China in the past 5 days, thus far these cases appear widely scattered and sporadic.
Although obviously a concern, we’ve seen no sign of efficient or sustained human-to-human transmission.
But, with each human infection, the virus is given another opportunity to `figure us out’, and so public health officials in Asia, and around the world, remain vigilant for that possibility.
