Big cities like Shanghai have quickly shut down their live poultry markets when human cases are on the rise. The fowl samples — along with live birds — arrive from a network of scientists who, each week, purchase birds at poultry markets throughout southern China. Why Chinese Scientists Are More Worried Than Ever About Bird FluEnlarge this image toggle caption Isaac Lawrence /AFP/Getty Images Isaac Lawrence /AFP/Getty ImagesAt a research lab on top of a forested hill overlooking Hong Kong, scientists are growing
viruses. Enlarge this image toggle caption Rob Schmitz/NPR Rob Schmitz/NPRThe birds that were quick to die of H7N9 were all chickens. Enlarge this image toggle caption Rob Schmitz/NPR Rob Schmitz/NPRKeiji Fukuda, former global director of the World Health Organization's Influenza Program, is also concerned.
Guan Yi who was instrumental in minimizing the Swine flu and SARS is pessimistic about this aggressive bird flu, mainly because it is changing so fast. That's scary because, until now, when chickens got the bird flu it was so mild, the chickens generally did not die from it. When people catch the bird flu from chickens, about a third of the humans die. Alarms began sounding in the
medical research community when scientists observed the bird flu was rapidly mutating and killing chickens in China. They're talking about the bird flu, also known as H7N9.
Why Chinese Scientists Are More Worried Than Ever About Bird Flu
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