At 21st February, Ministry of Health announced that Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has identified a case of human infection with HAPAIV.
The patient named Liang, male, 41 years old, was jobless in Xixiangtang District, Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The disease broke out at 12nd February and worsened at 14th February, so he was sent to hospital. At 18th Fenbruary, conditions of the patient worsened rapidly and died after all efforts at 5:00 am of 20th February. At 20th February, Disease Prevention and Control Center of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region checked the specimen of the patient's respiratory tract and found positive H5N1 nucleic acid.China Disease Prevention and Control Center rechecked the specimen of the patient's respiratory tract at 21st February and found positive H5N1 nucleic acid. The seperation of virus was being done.According to epidemiological survey from local health departments, the suffers had contact with fowl dying of illness before becoming ill.
According to the definition of diagnosis of human infection with HPAIV given by WHO and diagnosis standards of China, experts of human flu prevention from Ministry of Health believed this was a case of human infection with HPAIV.
The local government attached high attention to it after break-out of the epidemic situation and has taken preventing measures according to Emergency Plan for Human Infection with HPAIV. The all that had close contact with the death had been strictly watched medically and by the present there were no abnormal clinical manifestations.
Ministry of Health has reported the situation of the patient to WHO, Hongkong and Macao and Taiwan and other countries.
