Hong Kong confirms H7N9 bird flu’s first human case

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. (ANI)