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The two-month-old baby girl who was confirmed to have been infected with influenza A H9N2 yesterday (December 30) is still under isolation in Tuen Mun Hospital (TMH) in stable condition. 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 have contacted other patients and health care workers who might have been exposed to the baby girl and have put them under medical surveillance. So far, none of them has 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.
Ends/Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Issued at HKT 18:45
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