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Until February of this year, Yunnan Province had never reported a human H7N9 infection (see Yunnan: 2nd Imported H7N9 Case (Mother of Last Week's Case). While those cases were reported as imported, today the Yunnan Provincial Health & Family Planning Commission is reporting 4 recent, apparently locally acquired, cases.
Wenshan City confirmed four cases of H7N9 cases
[Index: 01510047-20170628-7196] Date: 2017-06-28
Yunnan Health and Family Planning Commission June 28 briefing: Health and Family Planning Commission in Yunnan Province, to strengthen influenza surveillance and unexplained pneumonia, influenza cases detected from the H7N9 virus nucleic acid positive specimens were sent to the national CDC review, consistent test results.
Provincial expert group based on clinical manifestations, laboratory testing, epidemiological investigation, according to people infected with H7N9 avian influenza diagnostic criteria for diagnosis of H7N9 cases. After the outbreak, Health and Family Planning Commission and the Yunnan Wenshan government attaches great importance to the timely mobilization of experts to treat the patient provinces and states to carry out epidemic disposal.
Currently, a patient has fully recovered lift the quarantine, isolation and treatment of the remaining three patients in hospital, condition stable. In close contact with the four patients who did not appear abnormal, it found no case of human transmission. Wenshan City on June 25 has been closed city live animal markets.
There is no indication on how any of these 4 cases were infected, or if any of them have epidemiological links between them.
Wenshan City is only 100 km from the Vietnamese border town of Lao Cai, which is sure to capture the attention of the Vietnamese health authorities who have been on constant vigil over the potential arrival of H7N9 all winter (see H7N9 Inches Closer To Vietnam's Northern Border).
An outbreak this far south, and this deep into the summer, is yet another sign that H7N9 continues to move in unexpected ways (see EID Journal: 2 Expedited HPAI H7N9 Studies).
