Iran Press TV
Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:59PM GMT
The deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu in China has spread to the country’s southeastern province Fujian, the second announcement in two days of a case in a new location.
Fujian’s local health bureau said on Friday that a 65-year-old man was confirmed to have the virus.
This comes one day after the eastern province of Jiangxi confirmed its first case of H7N9, in a 69-year-old-man.
More than 110 Chinese have been confirmed with H7N9 since a March 31 official announcement that the virus had been found in humans.
With 23 deaths, the cases have mostly been confined to eastern China, while one case has been reported in the island of Taiwan.
Experts are warning that the area of the epidemic might continue to expand before the source of the deadly avian influenza is brought under effective control.
Reporting in The Lancet medical journal on Thursday, Chinese researchers said they had confirmed poultry as a source of H7N9 flu among humans.
But fears are rising that the virus might twist out of hand, mutating into a form easily transmissible between humans and consequently trigger a pandemic.
Wrapping up a week-long visit to China on Wednesday, a World Health Organization (WHO) delegation confirmed there had been no human-to-human transmission.
Chinese health officials have acknowledged so-called ‘family clusters,’ that is the infection of members of a single family, but have declined to call it human-to-human transmission.
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Sexagenarian Chinese confirmed with bird flu in Fujian
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