H7N9 Bird Flu Cases Detected in China

Photo taken on April 1, 2013 shows the clinic building which received a patient contracting H7N9 bird flu virus in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. 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]