31 Dec 2008
The two-month-old baby girl who was confirmed to have been infected with influenza A H9N2 yesterday is still under isolation in Tuen Mun Hospital (TMH) in stable condition and her symptoms of the disease have subsided.
Nasopharyngeal aspirate specimens taken from her parents were tested negative for influenza A H9N2.
Staff of the Centre for Health Protection has contacted other patients and health care workers who might have been exposed to the baby girl and has put them under medical surveillance. So far, none of them have developed symptoms of respiratory infection.
Meanwhile, preliminary investigation by the health authority of Guangdong showed that a small number of chickens were kept in a food premises near the baby girl’s home in Shenzhen.
All her close contacts in Shenzhen and the workers in the food premises were asymptomatic and have been put under medical surveillance by the Guangdong health authority.