Nanjing Poultry Butcher Fourth Person Infected With H7N9 Bird Flu
A new case of bird flu was reported in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on Tuesday after a member of staff at a Nanjing hospital leaked a patient’s diagnosis on a Chinese social networking site.
The news broke just as Shanghai’s health bureau ordered hospitals to step up monitoring and supervision of respiratory diseases after a new strain of bird flu, H7N9, killed two people in the city last month, and left one in critical condition in Anhui.
The Weibo user named “phoenix”, whose Weibo profile says he’s an administrative director at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, posted a photo of what appears to be a patient’s diagnosis on Tuesday.
The diagnosis said that a 45-year-old Jiangsu woman, who worked as a poultry butcher at a local market, had fallen ill with a fever and a cough sometime in March. Her condition worsened on March 24 when she was sent to intensive care. On March 30, doctors confirmed that the patient was infected with H7N9 avian influenza and she was quarantined.
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