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Avian Flu Scan for Mar 28, 2016
H7N9 case in China; H5N8 outbreak in South Korea
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Avian Influenza (Bird Flu); H7N9 Avian Influenza
[h=3]China reports another H7N9 case[/h] Chinese officials have reported another human case of H7N9 avian flu, according to FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
The illness involves a 45-year-old man who is hospitalized in critical condition in Xuancheng, a city in east-central China's Anhui province, according to translated government information posted by FluTrackers. The patient had contact with live poultry, and his case was confirmed Mar 25, officials said.
The report came a week after Hong Kong reported an H7N9 case in a resident who had traveled to the mainland.
The new case increases the global H7N9 tally to 769, according to a list maintained by FluTrackers.
Mar 27 FluTrackers notice
FluTrackers H7N9 case list
[h=3]After nearly 5-month lull, H5N8 avian flu reappears in South Korea[/h] South Korea has reported its first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza on a poultry farm in almost 5 months, the country's Yonhap news agency reported on Mar 26.
The farm, which culled 10,900 ducks and is under quarantine to contain spread of the disease, is about 80 km east of Seoul in the northwest region of the country, according to the story.
H5N8 was last reported in South Korea in November 2015. The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) reported the first of 12 H5N8 outbreaks involving the death or destruction of more than 144,000 birds in the southwest part of the country in September 2014; the agency posted a final report in February of this year. No OIE report of the new outbreak has yet been posted.
Mar 26 Yonhap item
Feb 12 OIE final report
Avian Flu Scan for Mar 28, 2016
H7N9 case in China; H5N8 outbreak in South Korea
Filed Under:
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu); H7N9 Avian Influenza
[h=3]China reports another H7N9 case[/h] Chinese officials have reported another human case of H7N9 avian flu, according to FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
The illness involves a 45-year-old man who is hospitalized in critical condition in Xuancheng, a city in east-central China's Anhui province, according to translated government information posted by FluTrackers. The patient had contact with live poultry, and his case was confirmed Mar 25, officials said.
The report came a week after Hong Kong reported an H7N9 case in a resident who had traveled to the mainland.
The new case increases the global H7N9 tally to 769, according to a list maintained by FluTrackers.
Mar 27 FluTrackers notice
FluTrackers H7N9 case list
[h=3]After nearly 5-month lull, H5N8 avian flu reappears in South Korea[/h] South Korea has reported its first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza on a poultry farm in almost 5 months, the country's Yonhap news agency reported on Mar 26.
The farm, which culled 10,900 ducks and is under quarantine to contain spread of the disease, is about 80 km east of Seoul in the northwest region of the country, according to the story.
H5N8 was last reported in South Korea in November 2015. The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) reported the first of 12 H5N8 outbreaks involving the death or destruction of more than 144,000 birds in the southwest part of the country in September 2014; the agency posted a final report in February of this year. No OIE report of the new outbreak has yet been posted.
Mar 26 Yonhap item
Feb 12 OIE final report