City reports first-ever imported yellow fever case, patient stable and hospitalized

By Chen Huizhi | March 18, 2016, Friday |

Online Edition

A 46-year-old Chinese man flying in from Angola was diagnosed to have yellow fever yesterday, Shanghai health authorities announced on Friday.

The patient left from Luanda, the capital city of the West African country, on March 6, arrived in Shanghai at about 9pm on March 7 and went to the hospital for treatment right after that, according to the official announcement of Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission.

The man, who is from east China’s Jiangsu Province and worked in Luanda, found himself running a fever on March 5, but the infrared thermometer at the airport in Shanghai didn’t detect an abnormal body temperature on him.

Authorities said his condition is stable, but he has liver damages.

This is the first ever imported yellow fever case in Shanghai.

China’s national health authorities said last Sunday that a 32-year-old man who arrived in Beijing from Luanda on March 10 was diagnosed to have the same disease. That is the first ever imported yellow fever case in China.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a public notice yesterday that the ongoing yellow fever outbreak in Angola has killed over 100 people in that country up till last weekend, and warned Chinese nationals to take vaccine shots against yellow fever if they have to visit that country in the next three months.

The vaccine should be taken at least 10 days before the trip, it reminds.

Yellow fever is transmitted to people through bites of Aedes aegypti, known as the yellow fever mosquito, and notably in March and April.

Experts said Shanghai is not exposed to risks of an epidemic of the disease because the city is not home to yellow fever mosquitoes and it’s not yet warm enough for mosquitoes to breed.

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