Health & Community

4 new H7N9 cases reported

(January 23, 2015)

The Centre for Health Protection has learned of four new avian influenza A (H7N9) cases on the Mainland.
 
They involve two men, one woman and a boy.
 
One of the men is in Shantou, aged 68, and in serious condition. The other man, aged 45, is in Yiwu, Zhejiang, and is under isolation.
 
The woman is in Shanghai, aged 75, and in critical condition. The four-year-old boy in Zhaoqing is in stable condition.
 
They bring the total number of confirmed H7N9 cases on the Mainland to 489.