Another Child Infected with H9N2 Bird Flu

Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection today confirmed another H9N2 avian influenza virus (AIV) infection from Jiangxi province.

On June 13, 2023, VOLUME 19, NUMBER 23, reported a 7-month-old boy with the onset of bird flu on May 1, 2023.

Earlier in 2023, two other H9N2 cases were confirmed, one in Jiangxi Province and another in Hunan Province.

Differing from highly pathogenic H5 and H7 subtype AIV, H9N2 viruses have not been a priority for the disease control agencies in many countries.

Although H9N2 viruses are of low pathogenicity to birds and have only sporadically infected humans.

During influenza surveillance in poultry farms and live poultry markets of mainland China from 2019 to 2020, 22 H9N2 viruses were isolated from chicken populations in seven provinces of China, reported a Correspondence published by The Lancet Microbe in 2022.

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