Three patients have contracted H7N9 bird flu in Shenzhen, a major city in Southern China's Guangdong Province just across the border from Hong Kong.
The victims include two Hong Kong residents and a 38-year-old Shenzhen man.
A total of four H7N9 cases have been confirmed in China's Guangdong Province over the past five days.
The 38-year-old patient developed a fever and a cough last Monday, December 9th. He was admitted to hospital on the 12th.
A first test sample came back negative on the 16th a second sample tested at the Shenzhen Center For Disease Control and Prevention later confirmed it was H7N9.
The patient is now being treated at Shenzhen's No.3 People's Hospital and is listed in critical condition.
The patient had visited a traditional 'wet market' and reportedly touched live poultry in Dongguan City, located in central Guangdong. A nearby Dongguan market had earlier also found the presence of the H7N9 virus.
Guangdong Province now has eight confirmed cases, spanning the cities of Dongguan, Yangjiang and Huizhou.
According to the Shenzhen Center For Disease Control and Prevention, the high volume of poultry sales in local markets is related to the high numbers of H7N9
Despite the influenza, a reporter still found people catching and touching chickens with their bare hands--at both chicken farms and wet markets.
The Hong Kong and Kowloon Poultry Dealers and Workers Association now says its afraid chicken prices might fall to their lowest levels in five years.
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