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I wonder if that will happen if H7N9 doesn't transmit H2H like pH1N1 or SARS?
China's Response To H7N9 Bird Flu Is Rapid, Unlike Previous SARS Epidemic
By Michelle FlorCruz | April 05 2013 1:20 PM
As China?s death toll from the H7N9 strand of the avian influenza rises to five, China has begun slaughtering all live poultry at an agricultural products market in Shanghai after the virus was detected.
According to state-run newspaper, the China Daily, the state-run newspaper, authorities in Shanghai closed a live poultry trading zone in the Songjiang district of Shanghai, and slaughtered all birds there after they tested positive for the H7N9 bird flu. The Shanghai municipal agricultural commission also reportedly ordered the disposal of the culled birds, bird excrements, food products and all vehicles used to transfer the birds.
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China?s response to growing H7N9 has proven thus far to be quite different than 10 years ago to the pleasure of some foreigners.
Beijing-based Bill Bishop, who is behind the popular Sinocism China Newsletter and weekly China Insider column for the New York Times Dealbook, was in China during the SARS epidemic, and more recently the swine flu scare.
?Remember the quarantines and temperature checks all over Beijing during the 2009 swine flu fears? I expect them to return very soon.? he wrote in his newsletter today. China appears, I hope, to have learned a lot of lessons from SARS."
By Michelle FlorCruz | April 05 2013 1:20 PM
As China?s death toll from the H7N9 strand of the avian influenza rises to five, China has begun slaughtering all live poultry at an agricultural products market in Shanghai after the virus was detected.
According to state-run newspaper, the China Daily, the state-run newspaper, authorities in Shanghai closed a live poultry trading zone in the Songjiang district of Shanghai, and slaughtered all birds there after they tested positive for the H7N9 bird flu. The Shanghai municipal agricultural commission also reportedly ordered the disposal of the culled birds, bird excrements, food products and all vehicles used to transfer the birds.
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China?s response to growing H7N9 has proven thus far to be quite different than 10 years ago to the pleasure of some foreigners.
Beijing-based Bill Bishop, who is behind the popular Sinocism China Newsletter and weekly China Insider column for the New York Times Dealbook, was in China during the SARS epidemic, and more recently the swine flu scare.
?Remember the quarantines and temperature checks all over Beijing during the 2009 swine flu fears? I expect them to return very soon.? he wrote in his newsletter today. China appears, I hope, to have learned a lot of lessons from SARS."