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Editor, Senior Moderator
The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health is today (June 30) monitoring a notification from the National Health and Family Planning Commission that six additional human cases of avian influenza A(H7N9) were recorded from June 23 to 29, and strongly urged the public to maintain strict personal, food and environmental hygiene both locally and during travel.
The three male and three female patients, aged from 4 to 72, had onset from June 11 to 23. Four of them are from Yunnan and one each from Guizhou and Shanxi. Among them, five were known to have exposure to poultry or poultry markets.
Travellers to the Mainland or other affected areas must avoid visiting wet markets, live poultry markets or farms. They should be alert to the presence of backyard poultry when visiting relatives and friends. They should also avoid purchasing live or freshly slaughtered poultry, and avoid touching poultry/birds or their droppings. They should strictly observe personal and hand hygiene when visiting any place with live poultry.
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201706/30/P2017063000859.htm
The three male and three female patients, aged from 4 to 72, had onset from June 11 to 23. Four of them are from Yunnan and one each from Guizhou and Shanxi. Among them, five were known to have exposure to poultry or poultry markets.
Travellers to the Mainland or other affected areas must avoid visiting wet markets, live poultry markets or farms. They should be alert to the presence of backyard poultry when visiting relatives and friends. They should also avoid purchasing live or freshly slaughtered poultry, and avoid touching poultry/birds or their droppings. They should strictly observe personal and hand hygiene when visiting any place with live poultry.
http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201706/30/P2017063000859.htm
