H7N9 Bird Flu Cases Detected in China

Bao Changjun, deputy director of the Institute for Acute Infectious Diseases in Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, receives an interview on H7N9 bird flu virus in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, April 1, 2013. Two people in east China's Shanghai died in early March after contracting H7N9, a strain of avian influenza that had never been passed to humans before. Another woman in Anhui who also contracted the virus in early March is in a critical condition and has been transferred to east China's Nanjing for treatment, according to China's National Health and Family Planning Commission. [Xinhua]