14 cases of the virus H7N9 have been confirmed in

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   14 cases of the virus H7N9 have been confirmed in China. 

BEIJING (AP) — A middle-aged man who transported poultry for a living and another unidentified person have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll to five among 14 confirmed cases in China, the government and state media reported Thursday.
The 48-year-old man, who died in Shanghai, is one of several among the infected believed to have had direct contact with fowl. Until recently, the virus, called H7N9, was not known to infect humans.
The official Xinhua News Agency did not identify the fifth fatality, but said that person also died in Shanghai on Wednesday.
It said the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed on Thursday that the H7N9 virus had been detected in pigeons at a market selling agricultural products in Shanghai.
It is not known how people are becoming sick with the virus, and health officials and scientists caution that there are no indications it can be transmitted from one person to another. Scientists who have studied the virus's genetic sequence said this week that the virus may have mutated, spreading more easily to other animals and potentially posing a bigger threat to humans.
Guidelines issued Wednesday by the national health agency identify butchers, breeders and sellers of poultry, and those in the meat processing industry as at higher risk.
Experts only identified the first cases on Sunday. Some among the 14 confirmed cases fell ill several weeks ago but only now are being classified as having H7N9.
Xinhua said six cases have been confirmed in Shanghai, four in Jiangsu, three in Zhejiang and one in Anhui. 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/04/bird-flu-china/2052891/

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Albert Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Joined: April 24 2006 Status: Offline Points: 47746	Post Options Post Reply Quote Albert Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: 14 cases of the virus H7N9 have been confirmed in Posted: April 04 2013 at 9:05am
	14 cases of the virus H7N9 have been confirmed in China. BEIJING (AP) — A middle-aged man who transported poultry for a living and another unidentified person have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll to five among 14 confirmed cases in China, the government and state media reported Thursday. The 48-year-old man, who died in Shanghai, is one of several among the infected believed to have had direct contact with fowl. Until recently, the virus, called H7N9, was not known to infect humans. The official Xinhua News Agency did not identify the fifth fatality, but said that person also died in Shanghai on Wednesday. It said the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed on Thursday that the H7N9 virus had been detected in pigeons at a market selling agricultural products in Shanghai. It is not known how people are becoming sick with the virus, and health officials and scientists caution that there are no indications it can be transmitted from one person to another. Scientists who have studied the virus's genetic sequence said this week that the virus may have mutated, spreading more easily to other animals and potentially posing a bigger threat to humans. Guidelines issued Wednesday by the national health agency identify butchers, breeders and sellers of poultry, and those in the meat processing industry as at higher risk. Experts only identified the first cases on Sunday. Some among the 14 confirmed cases fell ill several weeks ago but only now are being classified as having H7N9. Xinhua said six cases have been confirmed in Shanghai, four in Jiangsu, three in Zhejiang and one in Anhui. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/04/bird-flu-china/2052891/

roni3470 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Adviser Group Joined: August 30 2006 Location: Colorado Status: Offline Points: 5390	Post Options Post Reply Quote roni3470 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 04 2013 at 11:32am
	I just found this article and I thought it was very helpful! http://www.dallasnews.com/health/diseases-cures/headlines/20130404-bird-flu-101-how-bad-is-the-new-h7n9-strain.ece This one has me slightly scared because this virus in the past has been relatively mild to humans. It evolved in a very bad way for humans and I know we are not getting the full story. guess I need to make a grocery run just in case!
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jacksdad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Executive Admin Joined: September 08 2007 Location: San Diego Status: Offline Points: 47251	Post Options Post Reply Quote jacksdad Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 04 2013 at 1:35pm
	Wow - the pigeon thing is potentially huge. One of the concerns that H5N1 researchers have had in the past is the virus mutating to infect pigeons, something which hasn't happened yet. By virtue of their numbers, they've been described as flying rats. They're everywhere, and they are capable of burying everything under their nesting/roosting sites in poop. Huge quantities of it. That's significant because susceptible birds like waterfowl, which have historically been the primordial host for influenza, shed massive amounts of the virus in their feces as a way of spreading it. In ducks and geese, that means they drop it into lakes, ponds and rivers as they migrate during the several weeks that they harmlessly harbor the virus, thus spreading it to other birds and continuing the cycle. Picture all the pigeon feces we see on a daily basis adorning the buildings and sidewalks of every major town or city, and imagine it full of a virus deadly to us. If pigeons turn out to be the host, or one of them, this would present an impossible task when it comes to eliminating them before it mutates to a pandemic form.
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carbon20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Joined: April 08 2006 Location: West Australia Status: Offline Points: 65816	Post Options Post Reply Quote carbon20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 04 2013 at 2:15pm
	just been reading a translation from a tweet (Niman) that says "they have been bagging chicken S..T to feed to pigs, very smart, this is what caused the "mad cow" scare in the UK, there they were feeding ground up bones to sheep, the pigeon thing is scary!!!
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pheasant Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: May 20 2006 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 9851	Post Options Post Reply Quote pheasant Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 05 2013 at 6:16am
	Hi all, been a long time since I have posted, when I heard about the reports from china last Sunday I thought I had better get back in the loop. From what I am reading, and the reports, we need to watch this pretty carefully This outbreak seams a bit more serious than the last one.... it just feels different.
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carbon20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Joined: April 08 2006 Location: West Australia Status: Offline Points: 65816	Post Options Post Reply Quote carbon20 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 05 2013 at 6:36am
	welcome back Pheasant ,yep you right about the "vibe " not good , but we await further developments..... with interest!!!
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Albert Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Joined: April 24 2006 Status: Offline Points: 47746	Post Options Post Reply Quote Albert Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 05 2013 at 6:42am
	Watch the news closely today. we could see another uptick in cases shortly. Welcome back pheasant. A

pheasant Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: May 20 2006 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 9851	Post Options Post Reply Quote pheasant Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 05 2013 at 7:51am
	Here is a new possible case, in Hong Kong Hong Kong reports first suspected case of H7N9 April 5, 2013 in Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes A seven-year-old Hong Kong girl is being tested for the H7N9 flu virus after she returned from Shanghai and showed flu-like symptoms, officials said Friday in the city's first suspected case. google_protectAndRun("render_ads.js::google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);Ads by Google5 Signs You'll Get Cancer - These 5 Signs Warn You That Cancer Is Starting Inside Your Body. - www.newsmax.comLeesburg, FL PC Repair - Quick Turn Around Save 10% by mentioning this ad - www.Simply-Technical.com Health officials said the result of the test was expected later Friday, coming after the virus killed six in China and prompted the closure of all live poultry markets in Shanghai as well as the culling of over 20,000 birds. "She has travelled to Shanghai in late March and had contact with poultry. We have quarantined her," the Hospital Authority's chief infection control officer Dominic Tsang said. He would not give details of the girl's condition other than that she was displaying flu-like symptoms, including fever. Health Minister Ko Wing-man said the city would step up random testing in local poultry and mobilise additional staff to carry out body temperature checks on inbound travellers at the border. He said suspension of poultry from mainland China was not necessary at the moment. Hong Kong was the site of the world's first major outbreak of bird flu among humans in 1997, when six people died from a mutated form of the virus, which is normally confined to poultry. Millions of birds were then culled. Experts are concerned that the H7N9 virus appears to have spread across a wide geographical area, with people sickened not only in Shanghai, but also the nearby provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui. (c) 2013 AFP Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hong-kong-case-h7n9.html#jCp
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Albert Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Joined: April 24 2006 Status: Offline Points: 47746	Post Options Post Reply Quote Albert Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 05 2013 at 8:26am
	One thing i've learned after monitoring this sort of situation for the last 7 + years is that suspected cases with flu like symptoms are usually always negative for the virus. Nearly 100% of the time. The virus is quite severe and usually requires immediate hospitalization, which is the primary symptom.

pheasant Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: May 20 2006 Location: Florida Status: Offline Points: 9851	Post Options Post Reply Quote pheasant Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 05 2013 at 8:39am
	Albert, do we still rely on recom binomics Commentary ,and his website?
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Albert Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Joined: April 24 2006 Status: Offline Points: 47746	Post Options Post Reply Quote Albert Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: April 05 2013 at 9:03am
	Hi Pheasant, thanks for asking, Yes we can now post recombinomics and niman's commentaries.