2014
1) Male, 49, in hospital April 23, 2014 with severe pnuemonia, diagnosed May 3, died May 6, Nanchong City, Nanbu County, Sichuan province Death
2) Male, 58, onset December 4, hospitalized December 9 in critical condition, Guangzhou city, Guangdong province Recovered note WHO rpt Dec 28
2015
3) Male, 44, onset January 27, 2015 hospitalized on February 3, died February 6, Tibet Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture Yunnan province Death WHO rpt Feb 12,
4) Female, 37, onset July 6, hospitalized July 9, died July 10, Shangri-La City, Yunnan province Death WHO report July 14
5) Female, 26, onset December 24, critical condition. Bao'an, Shenzhen, Guangdong province Death WHO report January 20
6) Female, 40, onset December 22, critical condition, Zhaoqing, Guangdong province WHO report January 20 Death note
2016
7) Male, 25, onset January 1, 2016, hospitalized January 4, 2016 in critical condition, Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong province Death WHO rpt Jan. 11 note
8) Male, 42, onset December 12, hospitalized December 12, died December 21, 2015, lived in Jieyang City, Guangdong province Death WHO rpt Jan 11
9) Female, 31, onset January 8, hospitalized in critical condition, Futian, Shenzhen, Guangdong province WHO rpt Jan 28
10) Child, 5, 1st documented H5N6 case from 2014 - case referred retroactively to in WHO rpt Jan 20
11) Female, 40, onset February 20, hospitalized February 22, critical condition, Guizhou, Guangdong province WHO rpt March 23 WHO rpt April 4 Death note
12) Male, 35, onset April 9, hospitalized April 12, critical condition, Hubei WHO rpt May 6
13) Female, 11, onset April 11, hospitalized April 13, ICU April 18, discharged, Zhuzhou City, Hunan note WHO rpt May 6
14) Female, 65, onset April 24, hospitalized April 27, Xuancheng, Anhui WHO rpt May 10
15) Male, 50, [Tian], onset May 23, hospitalized in critical condition May 28, Xiangxi, Hunan WHO rpt June 8 Death note
16) Female, 47, [Luo], onset and hospitalized on November 18, died on November 20, Shaoyang, Whugang, Hunan Death WHO rpt Dec 7
17) Female, 30, onset November 8, hospitalized November 18 in critical condition, Luizhou, Guangxi WHO rpt Dec 7
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Notes
The following case is not WHO confirmed but appears in literature:
9-Sep-16 4F Guangzhou City, Guangdong Onset 20-Oct-15, Hospitalised 28-Oct-15, Fatal 2-Nov-15 link
I case announced by province HFPC January 28, Guangdong province which may be case #9. link
WHO mentions an additional case but does not officially confirm it by adding to their chart in this document:
"Since 2013 through to 20 January 2016, ten cases of avian influenza A(H5N6) have been detected of which nine were notified to WHO and one was reported in the scientific literature.1 All nine cases notified to WHO had clinically severe disease. The case reported in the literature, a five-year-old female, was a mild case detected through routine surveillance activities."
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