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China: Early release of joint WHO/Chinese gov't statement on H7N9

Catbird

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Machine translation:

"National Health Planning Commission: H7N9 avian flu still uncertainties

Apr. 08, 2013

Beijing, April 8 (Ouyang Kai-yu), the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the World Health Organization (WHO) will be held April 8 in Beijing held a joint news conference, informed people infected with the H7N9 bird flu prevention and control.

According to pre-official material, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang provinces and the recent occurrence of the people infected with the H7N9 bird flu. As of April 7, the National Health and Family Planning Commission received a total of 21 cases of human infection with the H7N9 avian flu case reports, 10 cases (10 deaths), six cases of Jiangsu, Anhui two cases, Zhejiang three cases (two cases death). The above-mentioned diseases were sporadic and found no epidemiological association. Investigation of close contacts of the current total of 621 people, has not yet found an exception.

According to the results of the current investigation, the experts judged that the cause of the outbreak of the H7N9 avian flu virus is a reassortant, is a poultry-borne. Cases in distributing state, and found no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Due to the limited understanding of the disease etiology characteristics and epidemiological characteristics, there are still some uncertainties in the epidemic work."

xhttp://www.chinanews.com/gn/2013/04-08/4709285.shtml
 
Re: China: Early release of joint WHO/Chinese gov't statement on H7N9

To demonstrate exactly how H7N9/2013 has spread by poultry, (including the quail and pigeons) and wild birds, it would be helpful to the international community if China released some of the genetic sequences from those species in addition to their release of human H7N9.

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