Mainland tourist in Taiwan hospital with bird flu
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Taiwan authorities are monitoring hundreds of people who may have had contact with a tourist from China’s mainland infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu, officials said yesterday.
The 86-year-old man from eastern Jiangsu Province is in a stable condition in a hospital in Taiwan, where he was on an eight-day tour, the Centers for Disease Control said.
As many as 500 people may have had contact with him, all of whom are being asked to report to doctors should they develop possible symptoms, a center’s statement added.
The 149 people who may have had close contact include two family members accompanying him on the tour, the tour guide, bus driver, medical personnel and patients sharing the same hospital ward, it said.
“Three medical personnel have shown symptoms of upper respiratory tract infections and taken medicines as preventative treatment,” the statement said, adding that they should monitor their condition for two weeks while awaiting the outcome of tests.
They have not been placed in quarantine.
In April, Taiwan reported the first H7N9 case outside the Chinese mainland, after a 53-year-old man who had been working in the eastern city of Suzhou showed symptoms three days after returning to Taiwan via Shanghai.
The Taiwan government has issued a travel advisory for residents planning to travel to the mainland, upgrading Jiangsu to “alert” level.
Guangdong Province in the south has also been placed in the alert category.
An 80-year-old man infected with the H7N9 strain died last Thursday in Hong Kong, the first H7N9 death in the city since the virus emerged there last month.
He had been taken to hospital after returning to Hong Kong from the neighboring city of Shenzhen on the mainland, where he lived.
Taiwan’s CDC warned people to avoid touching and feeding birds or going to markets with live poultry when visiting mainland regions with H7N9 cases.
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