Researchers have released information that the H7N9 bird flu discovered in China can transmit between humans.
This is the first conclusive proof of human-to-human transmission. A 32-year-old woman has become infected with the virus after caring for her father. Both of them died from multiple organ failure. Continue reading
A top US virologist is warning that the country needs to prepare for the H7N9 virus to mutate at any time.
Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases said that while the Chinese government has not shown that human-to-human transmission is possible, the virus is “unpredictable” and needs to be a subject of concern. Continue reading