13.02.2014

Health officials in China's Jiangxi province reported their third recent human case of H10N8 avian influenza, which proved fatal. The patient, a 75-year-old man from the capital city of Nanchang, got sick on Feb 4 and was hospitalized with severe pneumonia. He died on Feb 8. The two other recent cases include the first detection in the middle of December, in a 73-year-old woman who died from her infection, and a nonfatal case in a 55-year-old woman whose illness was reported in late January. The virus is low pathogenic in birds but, like the H7N9 virus, appears to cause severe disease in people.