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Saturday, April 6, 2013

death, only seven days from the onset


Zhejiang H7N9 patients seven days of onset death experts: the virus with Blitz


....March 29 · fever
Mr. Zhang fever, stop coughing, his family sent him to see a doctor, no hospital stay.
March 31 · admission
Mr. Zhang home to difficulty in breathing, called an ambulance to go to a hospital in Huzhou City. Memories, according to medical admissions, patients with the ball (oxygen packets) to the diagnosis of pneumonia, the situation is very bad, the day of hospitalization. After hospitalization, soon turned into severe pneumonia, Mr. Zhang has chronic hepatitis B, was transferred to a hospital intensive care unit. Then, the chest X-ray shows that the side of the lung inflammation.
April 2 · detection
Mr. Zhang is the case, let the doctor tricky: pneumonia medication, including antibiotics had little effect on Mr. Zhang. Separated by just two days, Mr. Zhang's chest X-ray, has become a "white lung".
Time, unexplained pneumonia, Zhejiang intensify investigation H7N9 avian influenza virus infection, sampling, send Hangzhou.
April 3 · seriously ill
Zhejiang Provincial Health Department sent Treatment Panel members rushed to Huzhou.
22:00 that night, Zhejiang CDC issued a report patient specimens, the test results for the H7N9 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive.
Then, Mr. Zhang has been to rely on ventilator to maintain, has lost lung function, blood pressure can not maintain a normal level. The doctor said, This is the circulatory system of the patient's organs have been out of balance.
· Where he died April 4
Provincial Health Department, the Group of Experts, and again sent experts to Huzhou, based on the performance of the clinical, laboratory testing and epidemiological findings, the diagnosis of the cases human infection confirmed cases of the H7N9 avian flu.
The experts arrived at the scene, read the patient's situation, shaking his head and even said "too late, too late."
Evening, he died of respiratory failure, despite medical personnel in emergency rescue operations, and ultimately failed to succeed.
Then from Mr. Zhang confirmed, less than 24 hours.
April 5 · troubleshoot
The reporter interviewed Huzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control deputy director surnamed Zhang. He told reporters, who were local the relocatees, usually only to live with his wife two room during the transition, the contact person is relatively simple. The CDC quickly identified 55 people in close contact with the patient had. As of now, all close contacts of the cases were not found in the clinical abnormalities. http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/h7n9/content-3/detail_2013_04/06/23901832_0.shtml