Monday, February 10, 2014

#H7N9 6yo New Case Crossing from Shenzhen into Hong Kong

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Case broadcast
The boy is now H7N9 Hong Kong Immigration
Yesterday, the reporter learned from the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, Shenzhen recently discovered the first case of human infection with the H7N9 avian influenza in Huanggang entry quarantine.
According to AQSIQ introduced, January 28, Huanggang, Shenzhen Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found that entry quarantine in a passenger with flu-like symptoms.The passenger was a 6-year-old boy in Hong Kong, on January 28 in the afternoon to go to Hong Kong from Shenzhen, 8 o'clock that night back to Shenzhen. When immigrants infrared temperature measurement system shows its body temperature 38.1 ℃, then found the child with fever, red throat, a degree of bilateral tonsil enlargement and other flu-like symptoms and signs, but the patient's family denied a history of exposure to poultry week.
Later, the staff collected swabs samples for inspection. Confirmed, determine the traveler human H7N9 confirmed cases of avian influenza infection.

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