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UN investigating possible human-to-human transmission of new deadly bird flu in Shang
Chinese health officials are reporting that the new H7N9 strain of influenza could be making the leap from animal-to-human infections to human-to-human cases. According to Reuters, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention is analyzing “family clusters” of people who have fallen ill in hopes of understanding more about the virus.
“We are paying close attention to these cases of family clusters,” Feng Zijian, a spokesperson for the Center, said on Wednesday. “(We) are still analyzing in-depth to see which has the greatest possibility — did it occur first from avian-to-human transmission, and then a human-to-human infection, whether they had a common history of exposure, were exposed to infected objects or whether it was caused by the environment.”
Dr Zeng Guang of the the Center’s chief of epidemiology was quoted in the South China Morning Post as saying that 40 percent of patients who have contracted the virus have not had any contact with poultry or birds that could spread the disease.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/18/un…-shanghai/
2013-04-18 16:45:09
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