China Reports 23 More H7N9 Cases, 7 Fatal
CHINA - Reports of new H7N9 avian flu cases in China continued at a steady pace in the week before last, with 23 more cases reported.
According to CIDRAP, many of the new cases are in the north, which has reported a late-season surge, according to an update today from Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP).
China is in its fifth and by far largest wave of H7N9 illnesses, a season that has been marked by a shift to a highly pathogenic form of the virus in poultry and a wider distribution of human cases beyond the poultry production areas of the southeastern provinces.
