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Three of Zhejiang's H7N9 cases from the same family
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Three of the 53 H7N9 cases reported so far this year in Shanghai's neighboring Zhejiang Province come from the same family, the Beijing News reported today.
The cases, including the husband, wife and their daughter, are being closely monitored by health authorities, the report said. The family lives in the Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou city.
The World Health Organization says there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission so far, but has recommended close monitoring given the holiday travel and the potentially unpredictable behavior of flu viruses.
Eight new human H7N9 bird flu cases were reported in three provinces in China yesterday, ahead of a ban on live poultry trading set to come into force in several cities, including Shanghai.
Zhejiang yesterday reported four new cases — a 43-year-old woman in Hangzhou, an 81-year-old man and a 63-year-old woman in Huzhou, and a 57-year-old man in Ningbo, bringing the total number of infections in the province this year to 53.
Three more new cases were reported in the southern city of Shenzhen, according to Guangdong Province’s health and family planning commission. The cases were women aged 43, 41 and 31. Another case, a 53-year-old man, was reported in Huai’an City in east China’s Jiangsu Province.
So far this year, the virus has killed 20 people in China out of 96 known infections, Xinhua news agency reported. The deaths were in Shanghai, its neighboring Zhejiang Province and Guangdong in the south.
Most cases have been linked to contact with live poultry.
The jump in cases comes during the 40-day travel period around Chinese New Year, a period that concerns health authorities because of the volume of people traveling in crowded trains and buses, often with live chickens on board.
Chinese people are expected to make more than 3.6 billion trips as families get together. The holiday, which officially starts on Friday, also falls during the winter months when flu typically rages.
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