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 A 44-year-old man who sold poultry at a farmers market in
southwestern Sichuan province's Zigong city was diagnosed with H7N9,
China News Service reported. Local authorities announced a one-month
halt to poultry markets in the city's Ziliujing district from
midnight on Monday.
Separately, a 74-year old man who had visited poultry markets in
Shandong province's Binzhou city was also diagnosed with H7N9, China
Central Television reported. Binzhou authorities will temporarily
halt poultry markets in three of its districts.
Bird flu can jump from poultry to humans. Human cases of bird flu
have been unusually high for China since last year, with three times
more fatalities from H7N9 in the first four months of the year than
in all of 2016. But deaths fell in April for the third consecutive
month.
(Reporting by Jake Spring and Hallie Gu; Editing by Clelia Oziel)
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