Shanghai death takes city's H7N9 toll to 7, China's to 11
By Cai Wenjun |
01:40 UTC+8 April 13, 2013
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SHANGHAI reported one more fatality from the H7N9 virus as well as two new infections yesterday.
The latest fatality was a 74-year-old farmer admitted to Huadong Hospital in Jing'an District last week and confirmed to have the infection last Saturday.
So far, the city has detected 20 H7N9 cases, including seven deaths.
The country's death toll is now 11 among a total of 43 infections which include three new cases in Zhejiang Province.
In Shanghai, 12 patients are now undergoing treatment in isolation, the Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission said.
Both new patients are Shanghai men. One is a 53-year-old who began to feel sick on April 3 and developed a fever two days later. He was diagnosed with upper respiratory tract infection at Nanxiang Hospital in Jiading District. When his condition deteriorated, he went to Ruijin Hospital's north branch in Jiading and was diagnosed with severe pneumonia
He tested positive for the H7N9 virus on Thursday.
None of his close contacts has exhibited flu-like symptoms.
The other new case was an 86-year-old who started to feel sick on April 3 and went to Shidong Hospital in Yangpu District three days later. He tested positive for the H7N9 virus on Thursday.
None of his close contacts has showed abnormal symptoms.
The three new cases in Shanghai's neighboring province of Zhejiang raised its total to nine, including two deaths.
A 66-year-old man and a 74-year-old man in Hangzhou, and a 54-year-old farmer in Huzhou are all in a "critical but stable condition," health officials said.
Jiangsu reported no new cases. The province has so far confirmed 12 cases, including one death.
The province is offering refunds for all expenses incurred by H7N9 bird flu treatment, local authorities said yesterday.
The decision was intended to encourage timely treatment of H7N9 infections and exempt patients from medical fees that could be hefty if they were in a serious condition, said Jiang Lun, an official with the Jiangsu Provincial Health Department.
However, there had been no cases where hospitals had denied treatment over payment defaults, Jiang said.
Anhui Province has reported two cases, including one death.
Meanwhile, all influenza network laboratories in the 31 provincial regions on Chinese mainland are now capable of testing for the H7N9 bird flu virus, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said yesterday.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has sent a total of 160,000 samples of test reagents to the laboratories in all the provincial regions, Xinhua news agency reported.
Center Director Wang Yu said it developed the test reagents as quickly as possible in a bid to better control the outbreak.
Wang told Xinhua that the next step of the center's work would be to strengthen the monitoring of key regions, including some areas that have had no reports of H7N9 cases so far.
It will focus on changes in the virus, such as its drug resistance and variations of its gene sequences, in a bid to find the variation that can lead to human-to-human transmission.
The latest fatality was a 74-year-old farmer admitted to Huadong Hospital in Jing'an District last week and confirmed to have the infection last Saturday.
So far, the city has detected 20 H7N9 cases, including seven deaths.
The country's death toll is now 11 among a total of 43 infections which include three new cases in Zhejiang Province.
In Shanghai, 12 patients are now undergoing treatment in isolation, the Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission said.
Both new patients are Shanghai men. One is a 53-year-old who began to feel sick on April 3 and developed a fever two days later. He was diagnosed with upper respiratory tract infection at Nanxiang Hospital in Jiading District. When his condition deteriorated, he went to Ruijin Hospital's north branch in Jiading and was diagnosed with severe pneumonia
He tested positive for the H7N9 virus on Thursday.
None of his close contacts has exhibited flu-like symptoms.
The other new case was an 86-year-old who started to feel sick on April 3 and went to Shidong Hospital in Yangpu District three days later. He tested positive for the H7N9 virus on Thursday.
None of his close contacts has showed abnormal symptoms.
The three new cases in Shanghai's neighboring province of Zhejiang raised its total to nine, including two deaths.
A 66-year-old man and a 74-year-old man in Hangzhou, and a 54-year-old farmer in Huzhou are all in a "critical but stable condition," health officials said.
Jiangsu reported no new cases. The province has so far confirmed 12 cases, including one death.
The province is offering refunds for all expenses incurred by H7N9 bird flu treatment, local authorities said yesterday.
The decision was intended to encourage timely treatment of H7N9 infections and exempt patients from medical fees that could be hefty if they were in a serious condition, said Jiang Lun, an official with the Jiangsu Provincial Health Department.
However, there had been no cases where hospitals had denied treatment over payment defaults, Jiang said.
Anhui Province has reported two cases, including one death.
Meanwhile, all influenza network laboratories in the 31 provincial regions on Chinese mainland are now capable of testing for the H7N9 bird flu virus, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said yesterday.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has sent a total of 160,000 samples of test reagents to the laboratories in all the provincial regions, Xinhua news agency reported.
Center Director Wang Yu said it developed the test reagents as quickly as possible in a bid to better control the outbreak.
Wang told Xinhua that the next step of the center's work would be to strengthen the monitoring of key regions, including some areas that have had no reports of H7N9 cases so far.
It will focus on changes in the virus, such as its drug resistance and variations of its gene sequences, in a bid to find the variation that can lead to human-to-human transmission.
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