Liuzhou, Guangxi Province – Credit Wikipedia
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On the heels of this morning’s report of an H5N1 case in Vietnam (see Vietnam Reports 2nd H5N1 Fatality Of 2014) we get a report from the Guangxi Provincial Ministry of Health on their first reported case in roughly 5 years (see 2009 China: Bird Flu Patient In Stable Condition).
Guangxi confirmed case of human infection with H5N1 avian influenza
Time :2014-02-01 19:45 Source: Office of News Views: Secondary
January 30, 2014 17 am, Liuzhou CDC received reports of Liuzhou People's Hospital, admissions one case of severe acute respiratory infections, Jan. 31 at 2 pm again to collect specimens for testing, to detect H5 nucleic acid-positive, 15 o'clock in the afternoon Autonomous Region Center for Disease Control and Prevention served, at 6:00 on February 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to review the autonomous region was H5N1 positive. The regional health department expert group of patients based on the history of epidemiology, clinical manifestations and laboratory test results to determine human infection with H5N1 avian influenza, which is the second human case in Guangxi since 2009 confirmed cases of H5N1 avian influenza infection.
Mongolian certain patients, male, 75 years old, retired, who lives in Yufeng District, 113 East Central Avenue. January 27, 2014, because of shortness of breath, fever 39.4 ℃, and a cough, sputum symptoms, headache, chest tightness, difficulty breathing, etc., to the City People's Hospital emergency department visits for medical treatment of respiratory lung infection income, after consultation investigation, patients suffering from diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, resection of the left kidney disease and other infrastructure, the use of levofloxacin therapy had no significant effect, respiratory distress syndrome, endotracheal intubation, has been using Tamiflu and other antiviral drugs . January 29 CT scan showed multiple lobar pneumonia in both lungs and pleural effusion, mediastinal lymph nodes, lungs appeared patchy, lung disease progressed rapidly, patients in critical condition, autonomous medical expert group is working with medical experts in Liuzhou conduct rescue. Epidemiological investigation by the patient before the onset of exposure history of live poultry, disease control departments have been on the patient's home and the surrounding environment terminal disinfection of 16 close contacts of measures implemented under medical observation, has not yet found an exception.
Expert Tip: human infection with H5N1 avian influenza, preventable, controllable and treatable, the masses to achieve the "Fifth": To ground ventilation, to wash their hands, cover mouth to cough, sneeze to their noses, once the fever, cough such as acute respiratory infection symptoms, to timely medical treatment; to do "three not": Do not eat sick (dead) birds, do not touch sick (dead) bird droppings, do not buy poultry without quarantine certificates.
While our focus of late has been on the newly emerging H7N9 virus, winter and spring are also the time of year when we see increased spread of the H5N1 virus as well.
Thus far neither virus has shown the ability to spread efficiently, or in a sustained manner, between people and so the primary risk is exposure to infected birds; notably poultry.
But influenza viruses are constantly changing, making what we know about a particular strain today subject to change tomorrow. So we watch these cases closely, looking for any indication that the virus has better adapted to humans.
