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Monday, April 8, 2013

Shanghai today to add a person infected with the H7N9 avian flu has died



, Apr. 08, 2013 5:15City Health and Family Planning Commission today (8th) informed that as of April 8, 2011 17:00 city new confirmed cases of human infection of H7N9 avian influenza cases after she died.
The new cases are as follows:
Patients celebrate a male, 64 years old, the people of Shanghai, retirees. On the morning of April 1, patients with symptoms of chills, body temperature was not measured, self-serving pharmaceutical treatment. On April 3, the patient self-test body temperature of 39.0 ℃, to the Ruijin hospital pneumonia diagnosis of right, given symptomatic treatment. Patients with shortness of breath in the morning of April 7, 9:15 and went to the Ruijin Hospital for treatment, a diagnosis of severe pneumonia, isolation and treatment of income wards. Rescue invalid by the hospital, the patient died at 18:45 on the 7th. On the evening of April 7, the case samples by the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control laboratory testing, the results for the H7N9 avian influenza virus nucleic acid positive. In accordance with the relevant requirements, the Shanghai Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission organized municipal clinical expert group to discuss the deaths of experts based on the clinical performance of laboratory testing and epidemiological data, the diagnosis of the cases of human infection of H7N9 avian flu in cases. After investigation, the close contacts of cases of a total of four people have been implemented under medical observation, until now, were not unusual.