AVIAN INFLUENZA, HUMAN (01): CHINA (SICHUAN) H5N6
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Date: Wed 17 Jan 2024
Source: Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP)
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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/h5n6-avian-flu-hospitalizes-woman-china
A 59-year-old woman from China’s Sichuan province is hospitalized in
serious condition with H5N6 avian flu, Hong Kong’s Centre for Health
Protection said today [17 Jan 2024].
The woman is from Ziyang City. Her symptoms began on [25 Nov 2023],
and she was hospitalized 4 days later [29 Nov 2023]. An investigation
revealed that she had visited a live-poultry market before her
symptoms began.
Her illness marks China’s 8th human H5N6 infection of 2023 and the
country’s 89th since the virus was first detected in humans in 2014.
China reported its last H5N6 case in the middle of December [2023],
which also involved a woman from Sichuan province. That patient, who
died from her infection, had also visited a live-poultry market before
she became ill.
Highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu is known to circulate in poultry in
some Asian countries, but only China and Laos have reported human
cases, which are often severe or fatal. Most patients have had contact
with poultry or had been exposed to poultry environments.