H5N6 patient discharged from hospital

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GUANGZHOU, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- A man that was suffering from the H5N6-strain of avian flu has been discharged from hospital, health authorities in south China's Guangdong Province said on Friday.
After over a month in hospital, the man has shown stable signs of improvement, said Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases in Guangdong.
When he was admitted to hospital on Dec. 4,, the patient was in a critical condition and had symptoms including high fever and vomiting. He later tested positive for H5N6.
This was the second H5N6 human infection case in the world. In April, a man from southwest China's Sichuan Province was confirmed to have died after contracting H5N6.
Zhong said H7N9 avian flu was more challenging to treat and the fatality rate for H7N9 was 40 percent. He advised people against buying live poultry.
The province had 28 H7N9 reported human infection cases as of Thursday.