China - Two confirmed human infections of H5N1 in Guizhou Province, both died -110 released from quarantine

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Guizhou two diagnosed in critical condition no contact with poultry infected with avian influenza
Published :2013 -2-11 7:27:02Article Source: Beijing Morning PostViews: 59
According to Xinhua News Agency Xinhua reporter learned from the Ministry of Health on the 10th, Guiyang confirmed two cases of human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza cases. Currently, the two infected people in critical condition, medical personnel are actively treatment. Have not yet found the epidemiological association between the two cases...http://www.zjknews.com/zjk_jieguo.asp?newsid=467681

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On February 5th in Guiyang, Guizhou province, health officials advised people to wear masks even though there was only a small amount of seasonal flu cases:

Guiyang, a small amount of a flow of cases, the disease control experts suggest trying to wear a face mask

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..Guizhou Provincial Health Department, said that
the patients were a 31,-year-old man and a
21 year old woman and the second person living
in Guiyang.Handsome female patient surnamed
month disease,
subsequent exacerbations, was rushed to the Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital intensive care
unit treatment, and yesterday confirmed human avian
influenza virus H5N1 nucleic acid positive. Tsai,
male patients at the onset
of the 3rd of this month, since the purchase of
the drugs did not improve after taking the 8th
of this month, was sent to the Second People's
Hospital of Guiyang therapy, also confirmed
yesterday.
After the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee,
the provincial government has taken the appropriate prevention and control measures, and all are in
close contact with
patients who are under observation, has not yet found medical observation officer abnormal clinical manifestations.
The local health department appealed,
once people found dead poultry birds
should be promptly reported to the authorities.
Guiyang last month on the 19th,
avian influenza infection in male patients admitted
, provided that the sicker,
where he died after the rescue. http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/...00176_030.html

[Source: World Health Organization, full page: (LINK). Edited.]

Avian influenza - situation in China - update


24 January 2012 -The Ministry of Health of China has notified WHO of a human case of avian influenza A (H5N1) virus infection.
The case is a 39 year-old male from Guiyan City, Guizhou Province. He developed symptoms on 6 January 2012 and was admitted to hospital but was in critical condition and died on 22 January 2012. The case was laboratory diagnosed by Guizhou CDC and confirmed by China CDC on 22 January 2012. Investigation into the source of infection is ongoing. Close contacts of the case are being monitored and to date all remain well.

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On February 5th in Guiyang, Guizhou province, health officials advised people to wear masks even though there was only a small amount of seasonal flu cases:

Guiyang, a small amount of a flow of cases, the disease control experts suggest trying to wear a face mask

Last year report on the same province:

[Source: Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong PRC SAR, full text: (LINK).]

Notification of a human case of H5N1 in Guizhou

22 January 2012

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health received notification from the Ministry of Health (MoH) today (January 22) concerning a confirmed human case of influenza A (H5N1) in Guizhou.

A CHP spokesman said the patient was a 39-year-old man living in Guizhou.

He developed symptoms on January 6 and was admitted to a hospital on the same day.

He is now in critical condition.

The man did not report obvious exposure history to poultry before the onset of symptoms.

Laboratory tests on the patient's specimen by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention yielded a positive result for H5N1.

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...Reporter called Guiyang City Hospital intensive care unit, said the doctor on duty, trying to rescue the patient (Cai, male, 31 years old).

(Recording): nurse: he now did not su inside out re get him a single ward in isolation. When there is a fever. Most important, he comes to the rescue, we rescue after direct suspect a thing.

Doctor: Now the experts are to rescue the patient, they did not empty, no way out, is not yet out of danger, but now what happens, I do not know.

The reporter called to the hospital intensive care unit in Guizhou Province, the duty officer said, also rescue the patient (a handsome, female, 21 years old).

(Recording): We are trying to rescue the patient.
Reporter: Is not this also is needed to rescue?
Staff:
Reporter: she have a fever?
Staff: I am sorry, I can not give you speak.
The report also said that, after the outbreak, Guizhou Province, the city party committee and government attach great importance to the prevention and control measures have been taken in accordance with the relevant plans and programs.

But reporters were calling Guizhou Province Center for Disease Control, Guizhou Provincial Government, Guiyang municipal government, want to learn to take appropriate prevention and control measures, but the three departments that knowledge.

(Recording): Reporter: You are the Guizhou provincial government?
Government: my duty room.
Reporter: I would like to ask, Guiyang, two cases of avian flu patients, and to take measures on the prevention and control of -
Government: Government is not very clear, no way to explain to you.

Guizhou Province CDC: Reporter: You CDC it?
Center: you speak.
Reporter: I would like to ask, Guiyang is not two cases of avian flu patients?
Center: Do not know.

http://soundofhope.org/node/315168

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TaiwanThe Avian Influenza incoming airport the fever traveler strengthen screening
Feb 11, 2013 19:43
CDC issued a press release today said that the the outgoing in Guizhou, China confirmed two cases of H5N1 influenza, has asked the airport, port personnel to strengthen passenger fever, to investigate the history of bird contact. The CDC said, the birds history of exposure to inbound travelers from China has flu-like symptoms, quarantine officers will adopt specimens sent for testing and self-health management 10 days. The CDC called for local Taiwanese businessmen go travelers with the plan, you should pay attention to personal hygiene, strengthen wash their hands, do not touch the birds, to avoid infection; return, such as a fever or flu-like symptoms, consult a doctor immediately should wear a mask.http://www.appledaily.com.tw/realtim...AF%A9%E6%AA%A2

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hat tip Michael Coston

Taiwan Screening Inbound Arrivals From China




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The announcement yesterday morning of two H5N1 cases in the south-central Chinese province of Guizhou (see China: Two H5N1 Cases Reported In Guiyang) has once again raised alerts over the potential spread of avian flu.

While no additional cases have been reported, we often see increased vigilance across Asia whenever H5N1 makes the news.

An example comes today from Taiwan?s Central News Agency (CNA), on their CDC?s order to screen arrivals from China for fever or flu-like illness, and to take and test specimens from travelers showing symptoms.

CDC: Lu Chuan the avian flu strengthen epidemic prevention
2013/02/11 18:08:00
(Central News Agency reporter Lin Honghan) -
The CDC today said that the Chinese mainland the Guizhou outgoing diagnosed two cases of H5N1 influenza, has asked the airport, port personnel to strengthen passenger fever, to investigate the history of bird contact.

Department of Health, Centers for Disease Control press release said that the birds history of exposure to inbound travelers from mainland China have flu-like symptoms, quarantine officers will adopt a specimen for examination, and self-health management 10 days.

The CDC called for local Taiwanese businessmen go travelers with the plan, you should pay attention to personal hygiene, strengthen wash their hands, do not touch the birds, to avoid infection; return, such as a fever or flu-like symptoms, consult a doctor immediately should wear a mask.
(Continue . . . )

While the screening of inbound passengers for disease symptoms is quite often the first visible public health response when an emerging pathogen threatens, its track record of preventing disease entry into countries is spotty at best.

Last April, in EID Journal: Airport Screening For Pandemic Flu In New Zealand, we saw a study that found the screening methods used at New Zealand?s airport were inadequate to slow the entry of the 2009 pandemic flu into their country, detecting less than 6% of those infected.

New Zealand did not employ thermal scanners, although countries that did, didn?t fare much better.

In December of 2009, in Travel-Associated H1N1 Influenza in Singapore, I blogged on a NEJM Journal Watch article on of a new study that has been published, ahead of print, in the CDC?s EID Journal entitled:

Epidemiology of travel-associated pandemic (H1N1) 2009 infection in 116 patients, Singapore. Emerg Infect Dis 2010 Jan; [e-pub ahead of print]. Mukherjee P et al
Travel-Associated H1N1 Influenza in Singapore

Airport thermal scanners detected only 12% of travel-associated flu cases; many travelers boarded flights despite symptoms.

While the success rate is likely to be low, there may be some value in trying to limit the number of infected persons arriving into a country, for that may slow the spread of the illness and might allow more time to develop and deploy a vaccine.

Fortunately, we aren?t at the point with the H5N1 virus that it poses a serious global public health threat.

That could change, of course, if the virus evolves into a more human-adapted pathogen.

The sobering truth is that vast oceans and extended travel times no longer offer us the kind of protection they once did, and we possess no technological shield that would keep an emerging pandemic virus out.

All of which makes the funding and support of international public health initiatives, animal health initiatives, and global disease surveillance increasingly important.

No matter where on this globe you happen to live.

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It appears that Guiyang City is only 200 miles from the Vietnam border where there have been many incidences of smuggled poultry from China contaminated with H5N1 bird flu:

Vietnam - 48,000 chicken eggs smuggled from China seized in Hanoi - January 22, 2013

Vietnam - 2 tons of chickens smuggled from China seized at border - January 28, 2013

Vietnam - Hanoi government officials advise consumers not to eat smuggled poultry (presumably from China) due to elevated antibiotic residues and avian flu - Dec. 28, 2012

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One H5N1 patient dies in SW China
(Xinhua)
15:25, February 13, 2013

GUIYANG, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- One of two people confirmed by the Ministry of Health to have contracted avian influenza H5N1 died in a hospital in southwest China's city of Guiyang Wednesday morning.

The patient, a 21-year-old woman, died of multiple organ failure at the Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital at 9:41 a.m. Wednesday.

The woman and the other patient, a 31-year-old man, are both Guiyang residents. They developed symptoms on Feb. 2 and 3, respectively. Both of them tested positive for the H5N1 virus on Sunday, according to the ministry.

Epidemic control experts have not found any indication that the patients had close contact with birds, nor have they found any epidemiological connection between the two cases.

People who have had close contact with the two patients have been put under medical observation. None have exhibited symptoms.

The human-transmissible form of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, is an acute respiratory infectious disease mainly caused by the deadly H5N1 virus subtype. Main symptoms include high fever and pneumonia.

Human infections of bird flu are usually caused by transmission from poultry to humans. There have been no reported cases of sustained human-to-human transmission.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8128892.html

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Guizhou avian influenza medical observation of 52 people (20:12)
Friday, February 15, 2013

Guizhou recently diagnosed two cases of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenzaCases now confirmed that a history of close contact with poultry, there are still 52 people in close contact with two patients undischarged medical observation.
Guizhou provincial government, the Office of Emergency Management, said this year on February 7 and 8, Guiyang two patients to the hospital, were diagnosed with unexplained cases of pneumonia and severe pneumonia complicated by respiratory distress syndrome, the 10th confirmed human infected with avian influenza. A 21-year-old female patient in critical condition in the 13th rescue died, another 31-year-old male patient is still in the emergency treatment. According to the survey, case history of close contact with poultry.

As of now, Guizhou Province not then received new outbreaks have been reported, 110 people have had close contact with the two patients, 58 people have been lifted under medical observation, the remaining 52 continue to receive medical observers were not fever abnormal Pro  performance

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Guizhou confirmed human case of bird flu is a history of close contact with poultry
February 15, 2013 19:06:00
Source: Xinhua

Guiyang, Xinhua, February 15 (LI Jing Asia) Guizhou recently diagnosed two cases of human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza cases now confirmed a history of close contact with poultry, and close contacts of the two patients are still 52 undischarged medical observation.



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It is understood that, Guizhou emergency deployment to start the emergency response, and composed of three special working group to carry out prevention and control work to deal with municipalities, state poultry farms to carry out a comprehensive investigation, and organizational work group to Guiyang City and county, city, district The farmer's market, the the poultry market place, scale farms to be checked. The Guiyang carry out investigation, disinfection work, start a human bird flu monitoring, the implementation date reports


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"Health authorities in Guiyang, Guizhou province, announced that the 21-year-old woman, Shuai Pengyue, died on Wednesday due to multiple organ failure as a result of the flu. Shuai was one of two women reported in the area to have contracted the new strain of the avian influenza."

http://www.ibtimes.com/bird-flu-death-china-sparks-fear-human-transmitted-h5n1-strain-1088412

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Guiyang Medical observer of avian flu has been reduced to 39
Feb 16, 2013 5:01 PM
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WASHINGTON, Guiyang, February 16 (reporter Yang Qian) reporter learned from the Guizhou Provincial People's Government Office of Emergency Management on the 16th, at 16, 110 people in close contact with the two cases of bird flu patients, 71 people have been lifted Medicine observation, the remaining 39 continue to receive medical observers were not abnormal clinical manifestations such as fever.

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Provincial Health Department: avian flu prevention, controllable, and curable
Published: 2013-2-17 | Source: Ping An Health | Zebian: Jun

　　The Guiyang confirmed two human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza cases "message some time ago Reporter exposure caused widespread concern in the community. Types of knowledge about avian influenza rapid popularity in the crowd. This is not the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Health Department recently the problem of avian influenza has also made a reminder that the avian flu is preventable, controllable and curable. Related to their own health problems but also look to the broad public attention.



　　Human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza caused by influenza A H5N1 virus, according to the person in charge of the Provincial Health Department, acute respiratory infections, the majority of patients with mainly high fever and pneumonia, acute onset, rapid progression, mortality higher. Currently, bird flu from poultry to humans, yet found sustained human-to-human transmission. Province in recent years has not occurred cases of human infection of highly pathogenic avian influenza, but last year, the province surrounding provinces animals avian flu have occurred, and so can not be insensitive.

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should avoid contact with poultry, the public, especially children, to avoid close contact with poultry and wildfowl.

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Source: http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2...t_16230635.htm


110 released from bird flu quarantine
Updated: 2013-02-17 19:11
(Xinhua)

GUIYANG - A total of 110 people who had close contact with two patients contracted avian influenza H5N1 in Southwest China's Guizhou province earlier this month have been released from quarantine, local health authorities announced on Sunday.

Two residents of the provincial capital of Guiyang were reported to have contracted the H5N1 virus on February 8. The health authority put 110 people who had close contact with the two patients under quarantine, according to the provincial government's emergency response office.

They were released as no abnormal symptoms were discovered...