What would we do without Google Translate?!?!?!?!?! The banner headline translates to… Mainland has confirmed 60 deaths, 13 cases of H7N9 avian influenza... Thanks to "IronOreHopper" who called it out with the source link on Twitter. http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/special/h7n9/content-3/detail_2013_04/14/24201064_0.shtml
State media announced that the H7N9 virus had spread to a new province in China by reporting two human cases in central Henan just west Shanghai where the disease has been centered. The Xinhua state news agency announced that two new cases of H7N9 bird…
Today WHO reports a total of 49 patients that have been laboratory-confirmed with influenza A(H7N9) virus in China; including 11 deaths. This includes the case reported yesterday from Beijing. More than a thousand close contacts of the confirmed cases are being closely monitored. Investigations into…
Pig Testing For H7N9 To Begin China's agriculture authority has expanded the monitoring for the H7N9 strain of bird flu to pigs in order to have a better understanding of the H7N9. Monitoring pigs, in addition to poultry and wild birds, may provide a deeper…
WHO now reports 38 cases and 10 deaths from H7N9 in four provinces in China. The novel influenza strain has affected people across all age groups from the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui. WHO continues to state that there is no evidence of…
Today begins with a documented case count of 33 with 9 dead. Xinhua reported that a top Chinese biology lab has ascribed the H7N9 avian influenza to genetic reassortment of wild birds from east Asia and chickens from east China. The researchers found that no…
This mornings case count is now 24 with an additional death overnight bringing us to 7 deaths total. Laurie Garrett is a global health analyst and one of my favorite writers and thinkers on this topic - her book "The Coming Plague" is fabulous! ;-)…
A senior Chinese official told Reuters that the country is confident that it can control an outbreak of H7N9, just as the WHO announced that were now 21 human cases with six deaths. China is reported to be mobilizing resources nationwide to combat the new…
Well, there certainly was a lot going on this week! I had that “déjà vu” feeling all week from April 29, 2009 when all of a sudden people were wearing masks on the streets of Mexico City. Remember that one?!?! The outbreak surfaced rapidly. The…
I woke up early this morning in the California and quickly read through the major news feeds and Twitter postings to figure out what went on while I was asleep. The H7N9 has been isolated in a poultry market in Shanghai on Friday leading Chinese…