New SARs coming?
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Taiwan confirms first H7N9 bird flu case outside China
TAIPEI: Taiwan on Wednesday reported the first case of the H7N9 bird flu outside of mainland China.
The 53-year-old man, who had been working in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, showed symptoms three days after returning to Taiwan via Shanghai, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said, adding that he had been hospitalised since April 16 and was in a critical condition.
\"This is the first confirmed H7N9 case in Taiwan who was infected abroad,\" Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta told reporters.
The patient said he had not been in contact with poultry or eaten under-cooked birds or eggs while staying in Suzhou, Chiu added.........
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/taiwan-confirms-first-h7n9-bird-flu-case/651172.html -
Shanghai's drop in new cases is a good sign. -
how if plan to travel to country with H7N9 cases? sob
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H7N9 bird flu spreads to southern China
SHANGHAI - China's deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to a province in the country's south, the government said on Friday, marking the second announcement in two days of a case in a new location.
The local health bureau in the southeastern province of Fujian said a 65-year-old man was confirmed to have the virus.
On Thursday, the eastern province of Jiangxi confirmed its first case of H7N9, in a 69-year-old-man.
More than 110 people in mainland China have been confirmed with H7N9, with 23 deaths, since the government announced on March 31 that the virus had been found in humans. Most cases have been confined to eastern China.
The island of Taiwan has also reported one case.
A Chinese expert earlier this week warned of the possibility of more cases in a wider geographical area...........
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/h7n9-bird-flu-spreads-to-southern-china/655000.html -
micollh:
how if plan to travel to country with H7N9 cases? sob
Just avoid live poultry. -
slmkhoo:
Avoid crowded pl,if not,wear mask n sanitize handsmicollh:
how if plan to travel to country with H7N9 cases? sob
Just avoid live poultry. -
vinegar:
Avoid crowded pl,if not,wear mask n sanitize hands[/quote]slmkhoo:
[quote=\"micollh\"]how if plan to travel to country with H7N9 cases? sob
Just avoid live poultry.
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H7N9 bird flu spreads to central China's Hunan
SHANGHAI: China's deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to the central province of Hunan, local health authorities said Saturday, the third announcement in three days of a case in a new location.
A 64-year-old woman in Shaoyang City, who developed a fever four days after coming into contact with poultry, was confirmed to have the virus, the Xinhua state news agency reported.
It follows the first confirmed cases in the eastern province of Jiangxi on Thursday and the southeastern province of Fujian on Friday.
More than 110 people in mainland China have been confirmed with H7N9, with 23 deaths, since the government announced on March 31 that the virus had been found in humans. Most cases have been confined to eastern China. The island of Taiwan has also reported one case.
A Chinese expert earlier this week warned of the possibility of more cases in a wider geographical area..........
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/h7n9-bird-flu-spreads-to-central-china-s/655770.html -
We have plans to go hkg this July. Looks like I should kiv the situation. Haven’t been following the news lately, hence not really sure how’s the situation now. There is always a "is this the whole truth?" at the back of my mind whenever I get updates on health related matters within china, from china.
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Five die of SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's health ministry has said that five Saudis have died from a new SARS-like virus and that two more are being treated in an intensive care unit.
In a statement cited by the Saudi SPA agency late on Wednesday, the ministry said that all the deaths occurred in the Ahsaa province in the oil-rich eastern region of the kingdom, according to the AFP news agency.
Known as novel coronavirus or hCoV-EMC, the virus was first detected in mid-2012 and is a cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which triggered a scare 10 years ago when it erupted in east Asia, leaping to humans from animal hosts.
The health ministry said it was taking \"all precautionary measures for persons who have been in contact with the infected people ... and has taken samples from them to examine if they are infected\".
However, the ministry gave no figures for how many people have been examined to see if they have the lethal disease.
Sixteen people have now died from 23 cases detected in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Germany and Britain. Riyadh has accounted for most of the deaths, with 11 people, including the five new fatalities.
Coronaviruses cause most common colds and pneumonia, but are also to blame for unusual conditions such as SARS which killed more than 800 people when it swept out of China in 2003.
The new virus is different from SARS, in that it causes rapid kidney failure.
The strain is shrouded in mystery, and the World Health Organisation does not yet know how it is transmitted or how widespread it is.
A 73-year-old Saudi man died in Germany in March from the lethal new virus.
He had been travelling in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia before falling ill, and was transferred to Munich from Abu Dhabi on March 19.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/05/201352795849599.html
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