Morning News 7 years in Hong Kong yesterday confirmed the first case of human infection with H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza, the patient is a 59-year-old local woman in Hong Kong, is currently hospitalized in isolation. Patients had late last month in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, travel, went to the local market, returned to Hong Kong on November 1 and 4 after onset, 14 hospitalized patients with no abnormal symptoms of the families in Hong Kong reported.
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Information Office of the Ministry of Health news release yesterday, according to the Hong Kong Department of Health Bulletin, November 2 in patients with runny nose and other symptoms appear; November 14 hospitalized with pneumonia in Hong Kong; November 16 transferred to the intensive care unit. 。
November 17, the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection of the respiratory tract specimens for laboratory testing, the results showed positive for H5N1 virus nucleic acid. 。
On the same day, the cases were diagnosed confirmed human cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza infection.。
October 23-November 1, the patient had with his family to Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou tourism. No recent contact with poultry in patients with history of the readme. 。
Hong Kong has been briefing the World Health Organization, and in close contact tracking and tracing infections and so on. The Ministry of Health has asked the Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other local health departments, in accordance with the relevant plans for monitoring the epidemic prevention and control work to do.。
Human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 type of influenza virus from the infection. University of Hong Kong Centre for Infectious Diseases, Ho Pak-leung, director pointed out that the bird flu virus is very low risk of human to human transmission, even if not immediately after returning the patient to hospital, was in community activities, I believe with patients who have social contact did not affect large. 。
Infection in the world no one has sustained human to human transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza reported.February 2003, the Hong Kong H5N1 avian influenza virus infected two people, one person died.
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