Yesterday I posted A rough chronology of H7N9 so far. Here's an updated version, based largely on the new information from Shanghai Daily posted here earlier today.
Thursday, February 14: First of three admissions to Shanghai No. 5 Hospital of men in the Li family in Shanghai. Two are sons aged 55 and 69; one is their father, aged 87, who reportedly falls ill on Tuesday, February 19. All three are diagnosed with pneumonia. The younger of the two sons dies in late February; the other recovers. Neither son tests positive for H7N9.
Wednesday, February 27: A 27-year-old Shanghai butcher, Mr. Wu, falls ill.
Monday, March 4: Mr. Li, the 87-year-old, dies 14 days after falling ill.
Saturday, March 9: A 35-year-old woman in Chuzhou City, Anhui province, falls ill. Chuzhou is 322 km (200 miles) from Shanghai.
Sunday, March 10: Mr. Wu, the butcher, dies 11 days after falling ill.
Tuesday, March 19: Xu Wenqin, a 45-year-old Nanjing woman and poultry butcher, falls ill. So does a 48-year-old woman from Suqian.
Wednesday, March 20: An 83-year-old man in Suzhou falls ill.
Thursday, March 21: A 32-year-old woman from Wuxi falls ill.
Wednesday, March 27: Xu Wenqin is transferred to intensive care after her condition worsens.
Thursday, March 28: The Wuxi woman is transferred to intensive care.
Friday, March 29: The 83-year-old Suzhou man is admitted to a local hospital.
Saturday, March 30: The woman from Suqian is transferred to intensive care in Nanjing. She and Xu Wenqin both test positive for H7N9.
Sunday, March 31: The woman in Chuzhou City is in critical condition in a hospital in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, but still alive after 23 days. News of the H7N9 cases is made public and goes worldwide. The 32-year-old woman from Wuxi tests positive for H7N9.
Tuesday, April 2: The Chinese CDC confirms the H7N9 results for the Suqian woman and Xu Wenqin. No further deaths have been reported.My rule of thumb for outbreaks: Don't start to worry until you lose count of the cases. Or the new cases are healthcare workers.
