Man detained for spreading H7N9 rumors
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A man from central China’s Hubei Province has been detained by police for allegedly spreading rumors about H7N9 bird flu on the Internet, local authorities said yesterday.
The suspect, surnamed Zhou, from Zigui County, is said to have made the comments on Sunday via mobile messaging application WeChat and on Tencent’s microblogging platform, the public security bureau of Yichang City, which governs Zigui, said.
He was detained on Monday and will remain in custody for seven days, police said.
Zhou is said to have posted a comment saying, “A doctor from Yichang People’s Hospital died of H7N9 at 4:21am yesterday. She is only 31. A baby is still in the mother’s belly and doctors who participated in the emergency treatment have been quarantined.”
The post continued, “Multiple cases of human H7N9 infection were also found in other regions in the province.”
The online rumor was distributed widely and sparked panic among the public, police said.
Hubei provincial health and family planning authorities on Monday denied the rumor, saying no cases of human H7N9 virus infections have been reported in the province.
China has so far this year reported more than 120 human cases of H7N9, including at least 31 deaths.
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