CHINA back to report case bird flu H5N6. In total, there are now 3 cases with details of conditions that are not so clear.
The first case was reported in a 58-year-old woman from Hunan. This first incident was immediately reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) and received the full attention of the agency.
In his report, the woman fell ill on August 28, but her case has not been reported to the public. The information circulating explained that the woman was exposed to the virus from dead birds.
Then, the second case is a 52-year-old man from Dongguan City. “The patient is currently being treated at a designated hospital in Dongguan,” said the official report of the Guangdong Provincial Health Commission, quoted from BNO News, Monday (1/11/2021). Other details about the man’s condition were not provided, including where the virus that caused the man’s infection came from.
A third case was reported in Yangzhou in Hunan Province. A farmer is hospitalized in critical condition. The 66-year-old man fell ill in late September and samples collected from poultry in his backyard tested positive for bird flu (H5), according to the WHO.
“Chinese officials provide only limited information on human cases of H5N6 avian influenza and it often takes weeks before cases are reported to the public by WHO,” the news agency said.
“Most of the cases were first reported by the Hong Kong Ministry of Health, which is closely monitoring human cases.”
As of now, there have only been 52 cases of H5N6 worldwide since 2014. However, 20 of them were reported over the past 4 months, and more than half of all cases were reported this year alone.
