Woman delivers 'miracle' baby after H7N9 recovery_美文

Woman delivers 'miracle' baby after H7N9 recovery

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A woman who had been infected with the H7N9 virus gave birth to a baby girl on Wednesday, a feat doctors are calling a miracle.

Qiu Yan, a 25-year-old from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, is reportedly the first H7N9 survivor to give birth. Doctors at Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital said she underwent daily X-rays and used antibiotics to fight off the H7N9 flu during her pregnancy.

On April 6, she was sent to the intensive care unit in Zhenjiang First People's Hospital for a serious fever and breathing difficulties. Two days later she was diagnosed with the H7N9 bird flu virus in the fifth month of her pregnancy.

Sun Lizhou, an obstetrician at Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital who examined Qiu, recalled that the patient was in a "very serious condition" when she was admitted to the local hospital.

"Her lung was severely infected and she needed a respirator to breathe because she was suffering from respiratory failure," she said.

"Doctors were carefully using medications including antibiotics, antiviral medicines and hormone treatments in the hope of protecting both the mother and the child," Sun said. "She needed to take X-rays every day when her lung was infected, so I suggested putting her into anti-radiation clothing."

On May 14, Qiu was cured of the lung infection and discharged from the ICU. She stayed in the obstetrics department and stayed there until she gave birth to a 3.3-kilogram, 50-centimeter baby girl.