About one in five people who have contracted a new strain of bird flu in China (H7N9) have died, according to a report released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
So far, the virus has mostly struck older people, a majority of whom were male, and the evidence shows that transmission of the virus occurs largely from birds to people--although researchers suspect there have been a few cases of human-to-human transmission within families.
CDC: 1 in 5 Death Rate for New Chinese Bird Flu | CNS News Mobile
For a while there i thought the SARS and H7N9 where the same.. wow, sign of the times!
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