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Source: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/03/avian-flu-scan-mar-04-2015
Avian Flu Scan for Mar 04, 2015
H5N1 deaths in Egypt; H7N9 case in China
Filed Under:
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu); H7N9 Avian Influenza
[h=3]Two H5N1 deaths reported in Egypt[/h] A 16-year-old girl in Sharqia governorate and a 33-year old woman in Cairo died yesterday in Egypt from H5N1 avian flu, Ahram Online reported yesterday.
A case list compiled and monitored by the online news message board FluTrackers includes 78 H5N1 cases in 2015, not including the case in the 16-year-old girl. FluTrackers says 21 of the cases have proved fatal.
The Ahram Online story also says that a 2-year-old girl in Beheira governorate has recovered from the disease, according to a health ministry statement. The ministry also said that 11 patients in the country are currently undergoing treatment for H5N1 infections.
Mar 3 Ahram Online story
FluTrackers H5N1 case listing
[h=3]H7N9 hospitalizes another in China[/h] Health officials in eastern China's Anhui province today reported another H7N9 avian influenza case, in a 68-year-old man from Chizhou who is hospitalized with severe illness, according to a health department report translated and posted by FluTrackers.
According to the report, the man had contact with backyard poultry before he got sick. Anhui province reported its first case of the third wave of H7N9 illnesses on Feb 24, and since then it has reported six infections.
The man's illness edges the global H7N9 total to 623, according to a case list maintained by FluTrackers. It's not clear exactly how many deaths have been reported, but the World Health Organization said in a Feb 26 statement on flu vaccine strain selection that it has received reports of 227 deaths from the virus.
Mar 4 FluTrackers thread
FluTrackers H7N9 case list
Avian Flu Scan for Mar 04, 2015
H5N1 deaths in Egypt; H7N9 case in China
Filed Under:
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu); H7N9 Avian Influenza
[h=3]Two H5N1 deaths reported in Egypt[/h] A 16-year-old girl in Sharqia governorate and a 33-year old woman in Cairo died yesterday in Egypt from H5N1 avian flu, Ahram Online reported yesterday.
A case list compiled and monitored by the online news message board FluTrackers includes 78 H5N1 cases in 2015, not including the case in the 16-year-old girl. FluTrackers says 21 of the cases have proved fatal.
The Ahram Online story also says that a 2-year-old girl in Beheira governorate has recovered from the disease, according to a health ministry statement. The ministry also said that 11 patients in the country are currently undergoing treatment for H5N1 infections.
Mar 3 Ahram Online story
FluTrackers H5N1 case listing
[h=3]H7N9 hospitalizes another in China[/h] Health officials in eastern China's Anhui province today reported another H7N9 avian influenza case, in a 68-year-old man from Chizhou who is hospitalized with severe illness, according to a health department report translated and posted by FluTrackers.
According to the report, the man had contact with backyard poultry before he got sick. Anhui province reported its first case of the third wave of H7N9 illnesses on Feb 24, and since then it has reported six infections.
The man's illness edges the global H7N9 total to 623, according to a case list maintained by FluTrackers. It's not clear exactly how many deaths have been reported, but the World Health Organization said in a Feb 26 statement on flu vaccine strain selection that it has received reports of 227 deaths from the virus.
Mar 4 FluTrackers thread
FluTrackers H7N9 case list