RSOE EDIS ALERTMAIL

Situation Update No. 41

Posted:2013-03-31, 13:02:52 [UTC]

Ref.no.: BH-20130331-38689-CHN

Situation Update No. 41
On 2013-04-21 at 10:27:37 [UTC]

Event: Biological Hazard
Location: Capital city, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces Multiple areas China

Number of Deads: 18 person(s)
Number of Injured: 0 person(s)
Number of Evacuated: 0 person(s)
Number of Infected: 96 person(s)

Situation:

The death toll from a new strain of bird flu in China has reached 18, with dozens infected, state-run media reported, after experts said there is no evidence so far of human-to-human transmission. A 69-year-old man surnamed Xu is the most recent person to die from from the H7N9 virus, China’s official news-agency Xinhua said on its website Saturday. He died on Friday in eastern province of Zhejiang, the agency said. The virus has been found in a total of 96 people, mostly in eastern China, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday that there was “no evidence of ongoing human-to-human transmission”. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention had earlier said 40 percent of patients with H7N9 had not come into contact with poultry, raising questions about how people are becoming infected. It also emerged that the virus had spread among family members in China’s commercial hub Shanghai, raising fears that it was passing between humans.