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Hong Kong confirms H7N9 bird flu's first human case

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ANI Beijing
Last Updated : Dec 03 2013 | 1:55 PM IST

Hong Kong has confirmed the city's first human case of H7N9 bird flu.

According to China Daily, Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man said that an Indonesian man was hospitalized in critical condition after he came in contact with poultry on his way to Shenzhen.

Wing-man added that all the family members of the 36-year-old patient have been sent to the hospital for check up and among them four people are already showing signs of the disease.

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First Published: Dec 03 2013 | 1:47 PM IST

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