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Lisa Schnirring at CIDRAP NEWS provides a great recap of the new H7N9 cases that have emerged out of China since Friday in her report:
China's H7N9 outbreak total grows to 24
Lisa Schnirring
Staff Writer
Apr 8, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – Chinese health officials have reported eight more H7N9 infections, one of them fatal, since Apr 5, most of them men age 55 and older, including two who had mild infections.
All of them are from the same areas of eastern China that have already reported cases. Five are from Shanghai, two are from neighboring Jiangsu province, and one patient is from Anhui province. The new cases lift the total to 24 infections, 7 of them fatal.
And Robert Roos, CIDRAP News Editor, walks us through the R&D plans that the CDC has for the first samples of the H7N9 virus that are currently en route from China and should arrived in the next couple of days.
CDC waiting for H7N9 sample to speed test kits
Robert Roos
Apr 8, 2013 (CIDRAP News) – A human isolate of the novel H7N9 influenza virus from China—needed for the development of diagnostic test kits and related efforts—is expected to arrive at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within 2 days, a CDC official said today.
Michael Shaw, PhD, associate laboratory director in the CDC's Influenza Division, said he expects to receive the isolate late tomorrow or the next day. China has reported 24 illnesses linked to the virus so far, 7 of them fatal and most of the rest severe.
New case announcements out of China have typically been released in their early evening -which is 12 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time in the United States.
Which means we can probably expect to see the next wave of updates between between 5am and 8am EDT.
