Twenty days after visiting the poultry market, Hongming was dead.
He had been infected with the new bird flu virus, first reported in Shanghai, called H7N9.
Hongming was known patient number 8. He worked in Jiangsu Province, China. He was 38 years old and the fifth person to die of the new virus.
Sharon Sanders, Editor-in-Chief and President of FluTrackers — where a full list of flu cases is available — recreated the timeline of his illness from the story originally told in Chinese by Wei Chen Xiaoyan Zhao of China Economic Net.
Day 0: Infection. On March 8, Hongming, reportedly nicknamed "fat man," biked to the market and bought what researchers think were two H7N9 infected chickens to prepare for the next day.
Day 1: On March 9, he prepares braised chicken, which his family, including a 3-year-old boy and a 13-year-old daughter, eats. He doesn't eat the chicken (he prefers pork) but this is presumably where he got infected with the virus.
Day 2: The first symptoms of the bird flu start: Diarrhea.
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