The Chinese health service announced on Wednesday that the world’s first case of human infection with the H7N4 bird flu virus was detected, the Hong Kong medical services said. An infected resident of Ciangsu Province (Jiangsu) has already recovered.
In a statement released on Wednesday evening by the Hong Kong Healthcare Center, it said that the Hong Kong services had been notified by the Mainland China Health and Family Planning Commission, the local counterpart of the Ministry of Health. According to the Commission, it was the first human infection with the H7N4 variant in the world.
The virus genes come from birds
Symptoms of infection developed in a 68-year-old woman from Ciangsu in eastern China on December 25 last year. January 1 this year. she was admitted to the hospital and on January 22nd she was discharged home.
«She had contact with live poultry before the onset of symptoms. No symptoms occurred in any of the people from her close circle during the period of medical supervision »- reported the Hong Kong services, appealing to the residents to be careful and to maintain personal hygiene.
It has been established that the virus genes come from birds, the services reported, citing the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of mainland China.
40 percent mortality
The H7N9 bird flu virus is the greatest threat to humans in China. Since 2013, at least 600 people have died from this virus there, and more than 1,5 thousand. was infected. Mortality among patients admitted to hospitals was about 40%.
Only one case of human infection with the H7N9 virus was reported in China last month. Last year, 192 people were infected with it, 79 of whom died.