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The numbers of new cases of H7N9 bird flu are still rising, but these days the daily increase is more a trickle than the gush of a few weeks ago. That apparent slowing of what had been an explosive growth of infections with the new flu may lead
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A department spokesman said extra doses had been bought for the National Immunisation Program but if the high demand continues, a shortage could last until June...In South Australia, SA Health distributes the vaccine and said the state had "
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Kiwis are flocking to get immunised against a "killer flu" strain in unprecedented numbers this flu season. More than a million New Zealanders have had their flu vaccinations so far this year, a good 250,000 more than this time last year and 350,000
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The patient is a 53-year-old man who had been working in Jiangsu province from 28 March to 9 April 2013. He returned from Jiangsu via Shanghai on 9 April 2013, and became ill on 12 April 2013. The patient was laboratory confirmed with the virus on 24
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China say the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice. The scientists said Wednesday that the H7N9 virus seems troubling because it can generate no
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The World Health Organization says no evidence has emerged to show that a type of bird flu which has killed two Chinese men can be transmitted between people. Two men in Shanghai, aged 87 and 27, fell sick in late February. A woman in Anhui province
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Published April 01, 2013 Associated Press Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain, and Chinese authorities said it wasn't clear how they were infected but there was no evidence
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An 87-year-old man in Shanghai fell ill on February 19 and died on March 4, while a man aged 27 in the city got sick on February 27 and died on March 10, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said on its website. A 35-year-old woman in
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Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Thursday issued an advisory to citizens and residents to visit its primary healthcare centers in Qatar and get vaccinated against influenza which is on the rise following the drop in temperatures due to the recent cold
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Stories Nearly a quarter of ethnic Chinese have a tiny genetic variant that boosts sixfold their risk of falling gravely ill when infected with flu, a study published on Tuesday said. Researchers in China and Britain looked at Chinese hospital data
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