Hong Kong health authorities have quarantined 17 people that came into contact with the man diagnosed with the city’s third human case of bird flu. A further 99 people are being monitored.
Of the 17 people locked away in The Lady MacLehose Holiday Village in Sai Kung – which seems to be where we send all our seriously gammy people – five are healthcare workers.
They are in the danger zone because they exposed themselves to the 61-year-old man when he was first admitted to Queen Mary Hospital, as they didn’t initially realise he had bird flu.
Others in quarantine include a family member and seven unfortunate patients who were in the same cubicle as the man at Queen Mary.
All will undergo five days of anti-viral treatment.
Hong Kong’s third case of human avian influenza A (H7N9) was confirmed on Monday in the man who had recently travelled to a wet market in Zhangmutou, Guangdong, and purchased two freshly killed chickens.
He remains in critical condition.
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