Tuesday, April 16, 2013

World experts to help China with bird flu investigation

World experts to help China with bird flu investigation

Workers vaccinate chickens with H9 bird flu vaccine at a farm in Changfeng countyGENEVA (Reuters) - An international team of flu experts will go to China within a week to help with investigations into the deadly H7N9 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. The new strain of avian flu has killed 14 among 63 people known to have been infected, but no human-to-human spread of the virus has been confirmed. China confirmed on Saturday a seven-year-old child had been infected by the virus in the capital Beijing, the first case outside the Yangtze river delta region in eastern China where the new strain emerged last month. ...



Source: news.yahoo.com

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