A poultry farm tested positive, but serology findings were negative in veterinarians.
China reported one new H7N9 influenza case today, in a 78-year-old man from Hunan province. The man is hospitalized in the city of Changsha, according to a provincial health ministry report translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The man is from Shaoyang city in southwestern Hunan province, according to a story today from Xinhua, China's state news agency.
Two of China's provinces—Guangdong and Hunan—reported new H7N9 infections today, both older people who are hospitalized.
A mapping study flags northern Vietnam as a high-risk area.
A 2-year-old Cambodian girl has died from H5N1 avian flu, the country's ninth case this year, according to a joint statement today from Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
The girl, from Kandal village in Kampot province, which borders Vietnam in southern Cambodia, developed a fever on Mar 8. She was admitted to a private clinic on Mar 10 and to Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital in Phnom Penh on Mar 13.
China's Guangdong province today reported an H7N9 influenza infection in a 57-year-old man, according to a provincial health department statement translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
He is hospitalized in critical condition. The case is only the second to be reported this week, which could indicate a further slowdown in the outbreak's second wave, which began in October.
Veterinary officials in Macau yesterday detected an H7 influenza virus in a batch of live poultry imported from China's mainland, according to a Macau government statement today. Officials found the virus in chickens from a registered farm in Guangdong province that had been quarantined at a poultry wholesale market.
The farm is located near the Guangdong city of Zhuhai, in a Pearl River delta area that borders Macau to the south.
Libya's agriculture ministry today reported the country's first highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza outbreak, according to a report to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
For the fourth day in a row, no new lab-confirmed H7N9 influenza infections were reported from China, but the World Health Organization (WHO) in two separate updates today provided more details about four case reports it received from China on Mar 7 and Mar 8.
China reported no H7N9 infections or deaths over the past 3 days, keeping the total number of human cases at 389, according to searches of provincial health announcements and a case compilation kept by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board. The unofficial number of deaths remained at 120.
