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Guangdong woman ill with H9 avian flu

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The Centre for Health Protection is investigating an imported case of H9 influenza A infection involving a 47-year-old Guangdong woman.

She came down with breathlessness and a cough October 26. She came to Hong Kong for medical treatment and was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital October 28. She is stable and staying in isolation.

She had an underlying medical condition requiring regular medication. Her family members have been put under medical surveillance.

As she was in Guangdong during the incubation period, the centre has informed health authorities there and the World Health Organisation, the Ministry of Health and Macau's health authorities of the development.

H9 Influenza A is a mild form of avian flu. Infection in humans is rare.

This is the sixth time H9 viruses have been found in humans in Hong Kong. Four girls and a boy were confirmed to have suffered from H9 infection in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2008.

People should avoid contact with live poultry to minimise the chance of being infected with avian flu.

http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/healthandcommunity/091103/txt/091103en05003.htm?
 
Re: Guangdong woman ill with H9 avian flu

This is a good reminder that H1N1 is not the only flu out there. H7,H9 and the notorius H5N1 are still out there. They have not gone away.
 
Re: Guangdong woman ill with H9 avian flu

H5N1 has disappeared from the news.
No Qinghai genome at genbank since years.
No Qinhai-H5N1 except in Egypt ?

Some H5N1 in Thailand and of course Indonesia.
10% of Indo-pigs have(had) it ?
 
Re: Guangdong woman ill with H9 avian flu

gsgs said:
H5N1 has disappeared from the news.
No Qinghai genome at genbank since years.
No Qinhai-H5N1 except in Egypt ?

Some H5N1 in Thailand and of course Indonesia.
10% of Indo-pigs have(had) it ?
Click to expand...

While H5N1 may have disappeared from the news, there is no reason to believe it is gone. We need to be vigilant.
 
Re: Guangdong woman ill with H9 avian flu

H5N1 has re-emerged in the northern province Dien Bien of Vietnam late in October, killing hundreds of poultry and causing 2200 to be slaughtered. It really never goes away...
 
Re: Guangdong woman ill with H9 avian flu

There are 8 sequences for previous human H9N2 cases:

H9N2 - B.JPG

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