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City confirms 1st yellow fever case
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A 46-year-old Chinese man flying in from Angola was diagnosed with yellow fever on Thursday, Shanghai health authorities announced yesterday. It is believed to be the first ever imported yellow fever case in Shanghai.
The patient took off from Luanda, capital of the west African country, on March 6, arrived in Shanghai at about 9pm on March 7 and later went to a hospital to seek treatment for a fever, according to the Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission.
The man, who is from Jiangsu Province and worked in Luanda, began running a fever on March 5, but the thermal scanner at the airport in Shanghai failed to detect it.
Officials said his condition is generally stable, but he has suffered liver damage.
China’s national health authorities said last Sunday that a 32-year-old man who arrived in Beijing from Luanda on March 10 was diagnosed with yellow fever.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the ongoing outbreak in Angola has killed over 100 people, including Chinese nationals, and warned citizens to get vaccinated against the virus 10 days in advance if they have to visit that country over the next three months.
Yellow fever is transmitted by Aedes aegypti, known as the yellow fever mosquito, mostly in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa in March and April.
The incubation period usually lasts three to six days, and symptoms include fever, jaundice and bleeding.
So far, no local case of transmission has ever been reported in Asia.
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