Most cases of human bird flu infections are due to contact with infected poultry or surfaces that are contaminated with ...

The H7N9 flu emerged in humans in eastern China in February 2013, sickening 133 people and killing about a third of them before winding down in May. It seemed that the outbreak was over ...

Therefore, the discovery of novel influenza A (H7N9) virus infections in three critically ill patients reported in the Journal by Gao and colleagues (pages 1888–1897) is of major public health ...

The discovery means that unlike seasonal flu strains, which often become less transmissible when they develop resistance to drugs like Roche's Tamiflu, the new H7N9 bird flu does not lose any of ...

A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the U.S. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first ...

In 2013, an influenza virus began circulating among poultry in China. It caused several waves of human infection and as of late July 2017, nearly 1,600 people had tested positive for avian H7N9.

LONDONThe H7N9 strain of bird flu may be able to spread from one person to another, Chinese scientists are reporting in the British Medical Journal. Despite finding the strongest evidence yet of ...

In April, China took the drastic measure of shutting down 780 live poultry markets in order to stop the spread of H7N9 bird flu, a sometimes-lethal virus that had been quickly spreading.

The first estimates of the severity of the H7N9 influenza virus show that about one-third of people who were hospitalized with the infection died. And flu experts warn that the strain could ...

H7N9 influenza strain resistant to antivirals, but tests fail to identify resistance Date: July 16, 2013 Source: American Society for Microbiology Summary: Some strains of the avian H7N9 influenza ...

Researchers at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing have offered details about three of at least nine known deaths associated with H7N9 bird flu. In a report on the ...

The United States reported the first outbreak of the deadly H7N9 bird flu on a poultry farm since 2017, as the country continues to grapple with another bird flu strain that has ...