Woman with H7N9 confirmed
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A CASE of the H7N9 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed in south China’s Guangdong Province, Guangdong’s health department said yesterday.
A sample from a 51-year-old woman tested positive for the H7N9 virus at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday, confirming earlier results by the Guangdong health authorities.
The infected patient, surnamed Chen, was admitted to hospital in early August after having a fever for one week.
She has worked for many years slaughtering poultry at a local market in Boluo County.
Chen is in critical condition but remains conscious with stable life signs, said authorities.
At 4pm yesterday, local health authorities lifted medical observation for 54 out of 96 people who were placed under medical monitoring after they had close contact with the patient.
The patient’s son showed a low fever on Friday night with his body temperature hitting 37.8 degrees Celsius. But he tested H7N9 negative.
Other people who had close contact with the woman have shown no symptoms to date.
After Chen was diagnosed, agricultural authorities conducted tests on samples of all poultry at the market where Chen works. All samples tested negative for the H7 viruses.
The new case in Guangdong brings the total of human H7N9 infections on the Chinese mainland to 134 this year. Of the cases, 44 proved fatal. In July, China reported a single H7N9 case in northern Hebei Province.
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