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By , on May 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories. Since May 8, there have been no new cases of infection with H7N9, it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Government measures and favourable weather may be limiting the spread of a deadly new bird flu, as the number of reported cases has dropped sharply this month, say health experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 15th, 2013 I endorse this satirical (I think?) idea from the R Street Institute:
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Skygazers were treated to an annular solar eclipse in remote areas of Australia yesterday, with the moon crossing in front of the sun to leave a “ring of fire” around its silhouette. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The risk of spillover to humans was “constant or growing”, according to one of the authors of a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 
Foreign Secretary William Hague says the Conservative Party does not need a “drastic change of course” despite last week’s local election results.
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A new strain of bird flu that is causing a deadly outbreak among people in China is a threat to world health and should be taken seriously, scientists said on Wednesday. The H7N9 strain has killed 24 people and infected more than 125, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organisation (WHO), which has described it as “one of the most lethal” flu viruses. The high mortality rate, together with relatively large numbers of cases in a short period and the possibility it might acquire the ability to transmit between people, make H7N9 a pandemic risk, experts said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese health officials say the four-year-old son of a man infected with a new strain of bird flu has also caught the virus. Shandong province’s health department says there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission, and that the boy is in stable condition at a hospital. The Jinan Times newspaper says the boy’s 36-year-old father had no direct contact with poultry, but that the family lives near a market that sells live poultry. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 27th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China on Saturday reported its first case of H7N9 bird flu in the southern province of Hunan, the latest sign the virus that has killed 23 people in the country is continuing to spread. The official Xinhua news agency said the patient was a 64-year-old woman from Shaoyang city who developed a fever on April 14, four days after having contact with poultry. Her condition had improved with treatment, it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 26th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to a province in the country’s south, the government said Friday, marking the second announcement in two days of a case in a new location. The local health bureau in the southeastern province of Fujian said a 65-year-old man was confirmed to have the virus. On Thursday, the eastern province of Jiangxi confirmed its first case of H7N9, in a 69-year-old-man. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese researchers reporting in The Lancet on Thursday confirmed poultry as a source of H7N9 flu among humans but said they found no evidence of person-to-person transmission. A probe into four cases of human H7N9 influenza in eastern Zhejiang province determined that all the patients had been exposed to poultry, either through their occupation or through visiting so-called wet poultry markets. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan heightened surveillance of travellers from China on Thursday after authorities confirmed the island’s first case of a new deadly strain of bird flu. The 53-year-old man became ill with fever after returning from a visit to the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu on April 9, the Centres for Disease Control said. He twice tested negative for H7N9 but eventually tested positive on Wednesday after his condition deteriorated, CDC official Chang Feng-yi said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Taiwan on Wednesday reported the first case of the H7N9 bird flu outside of mainland China. The case involves a 53-year-old man, who had been working in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou. He showed flu symptoms three days after returning to Taiwan via Shanghai, the Centres for Disease Control said, adding that he had been hospitalised since April 16 and was in a critical condition. “This is the first confirmed H7N9 case in Taiwan who was infected abroad,” Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta told reporters. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An elderly man in eastern China died of bird flu on Tuesday, bringing the death toll from a strain that recently emerged in humans to 22, a provincial health agency reported. The 86-year-old man died after having been diagnosed with the H7N9 virus on April 17, the Zhejiang Health Bureau said on its website. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China bird flu spreads to Zhejiang, death toll rises to 22
By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man in the northeastern Chinese province of Shandong has been infected by bird flu, the first case found in the province, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday, bringing the total number of infected victims in China to 105. The H7N9 virus has killed 20 people in China. But it is not clear how people are becoming infected and the World Health Organisation (WHO) says there is no evidence of the most worrying scenario – sustained transmission between people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two more people have died from a new strain of avian influenza, bringing to 20 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Sunday. Chinese authorities have notified the WHO of six new cases, bringing the total to 102. Of those, 70 are still in hospital and 12 have been discharged. Five of the new cases were in Zhejiang province and one was in Shanghai. “Until the source of infection has been identified, it is expected that there will be further cases of human infection with the virus in China,” the WHO said in a statement. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The city should stop importing live poultry from the mainland to cut the risk of the deadly H7N9 bird flu entering Hong Kong, said the government’s former top vet who is a specialist in epidemics. Howard Wong Kai-hay, who was principle veterinary officer at the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department until late last year, warned the inspection process was not thorough enough and food safety was at risk. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Stop mainland China chicken imports, says expert
By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING — On a subway car in Shanghai, commotion breaks out when someone spots a live chicken poking its head out of a bag tucked under one of the seats. On a highway in Zhejiang province, a motorist is so panicked by bird droppings landing on her windshield that she stops the car and calls traffic police for help. On the Internet, photos of dead sparrows on a Nanjing sidewalk are ordered removed by police who fear they might go viral. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Bird-flu panic grips China
By , on April 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The death toll from a new strain of bird flu in China has reached 18, with dozens infected, state-run media reported, after experts said there is no evidence so far of human-to-human transmission. A 69-year-old man surnamed Xu is the most recent person to die from the H7N9 virus, China’s official news-agency Xinhua said on its website on Saturday. He died on Friday in eastern province of Zhejiang, the agency said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING (AP) — Almost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no recent contact with live fowl and the virus isn’t supposed to pass from person to person. The uncertainty adds to challenges the Chinese government is facing in trying to control the spread of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has already killed 17 people and infected 70 others in the country, mostly along the eastern seaboard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Death toll from new bird flu in China rises to 36
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. The United Nations health agency said the four deaths were from cases that had already been identified in laboratories. Since May 8, there have been no new cases of infection with H7N9, it added. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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