Wednesday, 19 February 2014

H7N9 human case #1 - 1-year ago...

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A year ago, on the 18-Feb-2013, the first human case of avian influenza A(H7N9) virus infection started showing signs of an illness; coughin...
Sunday, 16 February 2014

Shanghai and Hangzhou to permanently stop live poultry markets.

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According to the report on CNTV.com ENLGLISH  linked below, the poultry industry in Shanghai and Hangzhou (the capital of Zhejiang province)...

H7N9 snapdate: latest hotzone map

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Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus human cases by region of acquisition. Click on image to enlarge.

Looking at the age and sex difference between H7N9 Wave 1 and Wave 2...

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Thanks to CIDRAP's Dr. Nicholas Kelley for asking the question of whether I'd looked at the epidemiology of the H7N9-related deaths ...
Saturday, 15 February 2014

H7N9 snapdate: accumulating cases by region of acquisition

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Click on image to enlarge. This is what happens when you do nothing to stem the possible source of an influenza outbreak in your back ya...

Zhejiang province leads the way in H7N9 cases and their decline 3-weeks after market closures...

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Click on image to enlarge. It's the Province in China that has seen more H7N9 cases confirmed in human than any other Province (39%...

H7N9 case announcements dropping: is Wave 2 under control? [UPDATED]

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Its a very tough question to answer. There has been public pressure by China's poultry-farming groups on China to take measures to stem ...
Friday, 14 February 2014

H7N9 keeps changing and mingling and mixing...

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A new report in Eurosurveillance out today has once again raised the spectre of a pandemic H7N9 spread.  Not just for what the Meng and c...
Wednesday, 12 February 2014

First Taiwan, then Hong Kong, now Malaysia becomes a holiday destination for an H7N9 case...[UPDATED x2]

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Mike Coston has just made us aware via a Tweet that avian influenza A(H7N9) virus has escaped its usual roosting ground in southern easter...

H7N9 snapdate: H7N9 totals by month, 2013 vs 2014 to date

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Click on image to enlarge. January has so far tallied 1.6x more cases than the peak month of 2013 which was April. And those cases are s...