H7N9 kills 2 more as toll hits 25
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TWO people were reported yesterday to have died of the H7N9 flu virus in China — bringing the death toll this year to 25.
Authorities in central Hunan Province said that a 59-year-old man died yesterday of the virus, the first fatality there this year.
He had been in close contact with live poultry, said officials.
And health officials in southern Guangdong Province said a patient, surnamed Xie, died of the virus on Sunday in Foshan.
Hunan’s health department said the man killed by the virus, surnamed Li, was a resident of Louding City. The province has confirmed four cases this year.
Xie had a business selling and transporting poultry. He fell ill on Christmas Day and had been receiving treatment since then.
H7N9 has so far killed 25 people in China since January, and 113 infections reported. Zhejiang Province and Guangdong have been most affected, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Between Chinese New Year’s Day on Friday and yesterday, four people have been killed by the virus, Xinhua said.
The other two deaths were both in Guangdong, a 63-year-old in Shenzhen and an 82-year-old man in Foshan.
There have been 11 human infection cases reported during the holiday, including the two deaths mentioned above.
Among the other nine new infections, one was reported to be in a critical situation in Zhangzhou of southeastern Fujian Province.
The 27-year-old stonemason, surnamed Zhang, began showing symptoms on January 21 while in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang, before returning to his hometown in Zhangzhou on January 26 for the Sprig Festival.
He had been in close contact with live poultry as he shopped at a market in Hangzhou, local sources said yesterday.
Two new cases announced late yesterday by Guangdong health department involved a two-year-old girl, surnamed Liang, in Zhongshan City, and a 76-year-old woman, surnamed Li, in Huizhou City. Both are in a stable condition.
On Sunday, Guangdong health officials reported a 37-year-old man, also called Liang and from Zhongshan City, had the virus.
Southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region confirmed its first case of human infection on Sunday, involving a 75-year-old man from the city of Liuzhou.
As bird flu cases are increasing on a daily basis, public concern over people-to-people transmission of the disease during the Spring Festival is growing, but health experts said inter-human transmission was unlikely.
Last Friday, Shanghai halted live poultry trading for three months. The city has eight H7N9 infections and four deaths this year.
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