Biological Hazard - China, Province of Hunan, Yongzhou

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AFP Hong Kong confirms second human H7N9 bird flu case in a week

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Biological Hazard

China

Province of Hunan, Yongzhou

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Biological Hazard in China on Friday, 03 January, 2014 at 03:45 (03:45 AM) UTC.

Description
For the second time in less than a week, there is a report of a human case of H9N2 avian influenza. The China National Health and Family Planning Commission reported today a human case of avian influenza A(H9N2) affecting a boy aged 7 in Hunan, according to Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) press release. According to the information available, The child with a history of contact with poultry, lived in Yongzhou, Hunan. He presented with fever and runny nose since November 19, 2013. He sought medical consultation from a hospital in Yongzhou the next day and recovered after treatment. This case was confirmed yesterday (January 1). This is the second confirmed human case of avian influenza A(H9N2) reported this week. On Monday, Hong Kong health officials reported a human case of avian influenza A (H9N2) in a 86-year-old Hong Kong resident living in Shenzhen.
Biohazard name:	H9N2 (new strain)
Biohazard level:	3/4 Hight
Biohazard desc.:	Bacteria and viruses that can cause severe to fatal disease in humans, but for which vaccines or other treatments exist, such as anthrax, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, SARS virus, variola virus (smallpox), tuberculosis, typhus, Rift Valley fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, yellow fever, and malaria. Among parasites Plasmodium falciparum, which causes Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes trypanosomiasis, also come under this level.
Symptoms:
Status:	confirmed

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Hong Kong confirms second human H7N9 bird flu case in a week

December 7, 2013, 4:14 am

AFP Hong Kong confirms second human H7N9 bird flu case in a week

Hong Kong (AFP) - Hong Kong health authorities on Friday confirmed a new human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, the second case to come to light in less than five days.

An 80-year-old man has been infected and is hospitalised in the southern Chinese city, Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection controller Leung Ting-hung told reporters at a press conference.
"Tonight we have confirmed the second human case of avian flu influenza A H7N9 we believe this is an imported case," Leung said, adding that the patient has been living in the neighbouring mainland China city of Shenzhen.
The man, a Hong Kong resident, was admitted to the city's Tuen Mun hospital on Tuesday due to underlying medical conditions, but developed a fever on Friday.
He is currently in a stable condition and is being treated in an isolation ward.
Officials are still investigating whether or not the patient had come into contact with poultry on the mainland.
"We are still investigating if the patient had exposure to poultry, but he definitely did not in Hong Kong," Leung said.

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China reports two new H7N9 cases

Nov 05, 2013

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CDC

Two illnesses caused by the H7N9 virus, shown here in a colorized image, were reported by China today.

Chinese health authorities today reported two more novel H7N9 infections from different parts of the country, including in a 3-year-old boy with mild illness who is hospitalized, according to media reports and an early notification from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The cases are the third and fourth to be reported since the middle of October and would boost China's number of H7N9 infections to 139, which includes 45 deaths.

First case in Guangdong

The boy is hospitalized in Dongguan City in southern China's Guangdong province, where he is in stable condition, Xinhua, China's state news agency reported today. His infection was detected during routine hospital monitoring of flulike cases.
Donnguan is a large industrial city that borders Guangzhou, the provincial capital. The youngster's illness is Guangdong's second H7N9 case. The province's first case was reported in early August, months after the virus was detected in poultry markets there.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said in a statement that the boy doesn't have a fever and his flu-like symptoms are minor. All seven of the boy's close contacts who were under close observation tested negative for the virus, though three had flu-like symptoms.

Second case in Zhejiang

Very few details were available about the second case-patient, who is from Zhejiang province. The first news of the detection came from WHO Twitter posts, which said China had notified it of two new lab-confirmed H7N9 cases in Guangdong and Zhejiang.
Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman, said in separate Twitter posts that the two H7N9 cases were reported from different parts of China on the same day. "Winter is starting," he said.
In October Zhejiang province, located roughly 800 miles northeast of Guangdong, reported two H7N9 cases, in a 35-year-old man who was hospitalized in critical condition and in a 67-year-old farmer who had contact with live poultry and was also listed in critical condition.
Zhejiang is the Chinese province with the most H7N9 cases, with 49 infections and 11 deaths reported so far.

Wave of infections coming?

When the H7N9 virus was first detected China in March, the number of cases soared, then dropped sharply in May, with only two additional cases reported over the summer. Global health officials said poultry-market closures probably played a role in the declining number of cases, and there was a chance that the virus could burn itself out.
They said, however, that they expected sporadic cases to continue. And they warned that although flu viruses are unpredictable, there was a chance that the number of cases could start rising again as the Northern Hemisphere's weather cools, a pattern seen with other avian influenza viruses such as H5N1.

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