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Declan Butler, writing for Nature News, has an update (and Google Earth Maps) on China’s H7N9 outbreak, and the apparent lull in cases over the past couple of weeks.
Follow the link to read:
Avian flu update: lull in new H7N9 cases
Epidemic has spread to three more Chinese provinces, but no new cases reported since 7 May.
Nature doi:10.1038/nature.2013.12910
14 May 2013
An update to Nature's exclusive map of the H7N9 avian influenza shows how the virus expanded its geographical range in mainland China in late April. Since then, however, the epidemic has gone into a lull, with just one person falling ill with H7N9 since the start of May. The drop might reflect that authorities's control measures, such as the closure of live bird markets, are working, but it is also possible that the epidemic will rear its head again later.
