Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: The Standard, full text: (LINK).]
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(H7N9 watch) WHO stumbles with outdated public updates, while farmer becomes sixth fatality in China
The World Health Organisation has fallen behind in its online reporting of casualties from the killer of H7N9 bird flu virus, largely concentrated in eastern China. Even as China reported the sixth death today, the WHO?s ?Global Alert Response? website announced that only three had died in an ?update? dated Thursday, April 4.
Even last night as authorities in China announced the fourth and fifth casualties, the WHO ?global alert update? mentioned three fatalities in China.
The WHO notification system for the public online has been struggling to keep up since Monday. The website shows just two ?updates? since April 1.
Yesterday, authorities in China?s glitzy commercial capital Shanghai began culling poultry in a market late night operation.
The sixth person whose death was reported today was a 64-year-old farmer, state media said. He died in Huzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, local officials said according to Xinhua.
He is thought to be among 14 human cases of H7N9 previously confirmed, and is the second person from the Zhejiang to die from the strain, with the other four fatalities coming from Shanghai.
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-The World Health Organisation has fallen behind in its online reporting of casualties from the killer of H7N9 bird flu virus, largely concentrated in eastern China. Even as China reported the sixth death today, the WHO?s ?Global Alert Response? website announced that only three had died in an ?update? dated Thursday, April 4.
Even last night as authorities in China announced the fourth and fifth casualties, the WHO ?global alert update? mentioned three fatalities in China.
The WHO notification system for the public online has been struggling to keep up since Monday. The website shows just two ?updates? since April 1.
Yesterday, authorities in China?s glitzy commercial capital Shanghai began culling poultry in a market late night operation.
The sixth person whose death was reported today was a 64-year-old farmer, state media said. He died in Huzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, local officials said according to Xinhua.
He is thought to be among 14 human cases of H7N9 previously confirmed, and is the second person from the Zhejiang to die from the strain, with the other four fatalities coming from Shanghai.
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