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You know its a busy morning when the daily tally of H7N9 is the sixth blog of the day.
Anyway, with a great deal of help from the newshounds at FluTrackers and Sharon Sander’s constantly updated and invaluable H7N9 Line Listing, we’ve five new cases reported out of Mainland China, along with the earlier reported Hong Kong Fatality (see CHP Announces 4th H7N9 Case In Hong Kong).
First stop, Zhejiang Province which reports three new cases today:
Zhejiang Province, three new cases of human infection of bird flu H7N9
Release date :2014-01-29
Source: Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission
Zhejiang Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission January 29 briefing, the province today added three cases of human infection with H7N9 avian influenza.
1, patients Moumou, male, farmer, aged 37, Wencheng County of Wenzhou. January 28 confirmed human cases of avian influenza H7N9 infection. Is now in critical condition at a hospital in Wenzhou treatment.
2, patients Zhu Moumou, male, individuals, aged 60, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou people. January 28 confirmed human cases of avian influenza H7N9 infection. Now the condition is severe, treatment in a hospital in Hangzhou.
3, the patient Gu Moumou, male, retired, 63 years old, Hangzhou City people. January 28 confirmed human cases of avian influenza H7N9 infection. Now the condition is severe, treatment in a hospital in Hangzhou.
Next stop, Guangdong Province, which yesterday reported three relatively young cases (ages 43, 41 & 31), reports a rare teenage infection today.
Province added one case of human infection of bird flu H7N9
2014-01-29 15:22:58 Ministry of Health and Family Planning Commission |
Health and Family Planning Commission of Guangdong Province on January 29 briefing, the Guangzhou new case of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza.
Patients Zhang, male, 17 years old, high school student, who now lives in Tianhe District, Huangpu Road Street Village Street. January 29 confirmed cases of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza, the patient's condition is currently stable in Guangzhou City, the designated hospital admission.
Last stop is Fujian province, where just as unusually, a toddler is reported infected by the virus.
Fujian Province, one case of human infection with the H7N9 new bird flu cases
Time :2014-01-29
Health and Family Planning Commission of Fujian Province on the 29th Bulletin, 29 Nisshin province confirmed one case of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza.
Patients Moumou, male, 2 Suiyu, now living Xiang'an District. Currently patients with mild disease, in recovery, isolation and treatment at a hospital in Xiamen. The case for the province routine influenza surveillance sentinel hospitals found cases. (Emergency Management Office)
Although reported H7N9 cases have skewed heavily towards older patients - among those younger cases identified - we’ve seen relatively mild illness, which may be affecting the detection rate. Simply put, those with mild illnesses are less likely to seek medical care, get tested, and end up counted.
Whether younger people are actually infected less often than older people is something that probably can’t be firmly established until good, community wide seroprevalence studies can be conducted.
We may see additional cases announced later in the day, in which case I’ll post an update.
