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Hong Kong reports first H7N9 case of the year

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An official holds a chicken during the checking of poultry at the border with mainland China in Hong Kong on April 11, 2013Hong Kong health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the territory’s third human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, the city’s first of 2014. A 65-year-old man has been infected with the virus and is in a critical condition, Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection controller Leung Ting-hung told reporters at a press conference late Wednesday. Leung also said that the patient may have “passed through” the entrance of a government building complex containing a wet market in Hong Kong. An 80-year-old man died on Boxing Day after he was infected with H7N9, Hong Kong’s first death from the virus.

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An official holds a chicken during the checking of poultry at the border with mainland China in Hong Kong on April 11, 2013Hong Kong health authorities on Wednesday confirmed the territory's third human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, the city's first of 2014. A 65-year-old man has been infected with the virus and is in a critical condition, Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection controller Leung Ting-hung told reporters at a press conference late Wednesday. Leung also said that the patient may have "passed through" the entrance of a government building complex containing a wet market in Hong Kong. An 80-year-old man died on Boxing Day after he was infected with H7N9, Hong Kong's first death from the virus.


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