# 7055
Many readers are no doubt familiar with journalist, author, and film producer Peter Christian Hall, whose pandemic inspired book American Fever was published in 2012.
In 2011, Peter interviewed Crof, Scott McPherson, Cottontop, and myself for an article on flu bloggers, and our reaction to the movie Contagion, for The Huffington Post (see Contagion Grips 'Flublogia').
Yesterday Peter contacted me in regards to a story he wanted to write for Reuters, and I suggested he might want to talk to Jason Anthony Tetro, coordinator of the Emerging Pathogens Research Centre in Ottawa, who knows a heck of a lot more about virology than I do.
Peter ultimately interviewed Jason, Sharon Sanders at FluTrackers, and myself for his article, which can be read on the Great Debate Blog, at Reuters.
New bird flu strain creates fear and surveillance
By Peter Christian Hall
April 2, 2013
An emerging bird flu that is mysterious and deadly is haunting China. With four fresh H7N9 cases reported in Jiangsu Province and no indication as to how three Chinese adults caught the little-noted avian flu virus that killed two of them in March, the global medical community is hoping the new flu will calm down until China’s health system can determine how it spread.
