The third city in China, Nanjing, has had to temporarily stop trading poultry due to an outbreak of an unusual bird flu. State-run media outlet, Xinhua, reported that six people have died so far, on Saturday. Shanghai and Zhejiang have been joined by Jiangsu's provincial capital of Nanjing, in shuttering markets, said Xinhua. Two of the six deaths occurred in Zhejiang and the other four occurred in Shanghai.
Over 20,000 live birds, from poultry zones, have been killed by officials in China in order to fix the issue. People in the Shanghai trading zone had come as researches to the U.S., and have started a vaccine for H7N9. The H7N9 avian flu has also been found in Pigeons. The virus had not actually been found in humans until, recently, many cases were reported.On Saturday evening, about 18 cases had been reported of the bird flu, said Xinhua. The World Health Organization had confirmed that there were 16 cases of the virus.
One victim of the flu was a 64-year-old man. He died on Thursday, which was hours after the doctors confirmed that this man had been diagnosed with the flu, said Chinese officials. Two other men were the ages of 66 and 74. The developed symptoms of the bird flu late last month. They were diagnosed with pneumonia over the past two days said officials in China. Eleven people that were closely in contact with these two men have not shown flu symptoms, said officials. No cases of human-to-human spread of the virus have been reported.
Dr. Joseph Bresse, said "We don't know yet where humans got their virus from." This man is head of the epidemiology and prevention branch of the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influenza division. He also said this virus has not demonstrated the ability to spread between humans.
In Atlants, the CDC, has been working together with Chinese officials, in order to find the cause of this infection.
Analysis: The authors of this article, Lateef Mungin and Michael Martinez, wrote this article to show what has been going on health wise in China. They are informing us about a virus and how it has affected people thus far. The main idea of this article is that Nanjing is the third city to stop poultry trading due to bird flu. Sixteen cases of the virus have been reported in east China. There have been no reported cases of human-to-human spread of the virus, and poultry markets in Shanghai and Hangzhou have been shut down in an attempt to help stop the spread of this virus. This was written for everyone around the world because it could affect all of us. If human-to-human cases start appearing and those people travel everywhere then we could all end up with virus H7N9. There was no sense of bias in the article. It was all facts, and there was one informational quote.
This is just awful. It scares me knowing that if this virus is contagious then eventually, it could end up all over the world, and we could all possible dies of it. I really dislike how birds are having to placed in cages though. Birds have wings to fly free and be anywhere they desire. Now that opportunity is being deprived from them. I don't want people to die of the virus, but I don't want birds to be captured, so I am kind of undecided on what should happen. I just hope that a cure for the virus is found soon so people won't have to live in fear of catching the virus, and birds can yet again roam free.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/06/world/asia/china-bird-flu/index.html?hpt=ias_c2
Very interesting!!!!
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