2 Dead in China from Bird Flu: Amanda Kipp

Over the past few months 2 people in China have died and one is critically ill due to a type of bird flu that has never been detected before in humans. The two who died were both men, age 27 and 87, from Shanghai, and a 35 year old woman is in the hospital in Chuzhou city. The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua, reported that these 3 victims first had symptoms of fever and coughing which then progressed into severe pneumonia and difficulty breathing. A team of health experts found that these were cases of the H7N9 avian influenza infection, which hasn't ever been found in humans before. H7N9 is already known to exist in wild birds and was most likely transmitted to poultry, and then to humans. Thankfully the transmission of these kinds of viruses from bird to human are usually "extremely inefficient" meaning that for every 10,000 infected birds only 1 human will be infected. Hopefully there will not be an H7N9 outbreak anytime soon!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/01/world/asia/china-bird-flu-deaths/index.html?hpt=ias_c2