What You Need To Know About The New Bird Flu
In A Meat Market Caged domestic pigeons in a meat market in eastern China. This photo was taken in 2009, in a location several hours north by car from the provinces where confirmed H7N9 cases have occurred. felibrilu on Flickr, CC BY_NC 2.0The H7N9 avian flu virus outbreak in China has already killed 11 people. Here's what's up with it. There have been some new developments in China's struggle with bird flu over the past two days, including another confirmed death and a scientific report from Chinese researchers about the first three victims to die. Here's what else you'll want to know: What is it? The disease is a bird flu (a virus that originated from one adapted to attack birds) of particular type, called H7N9. This is the first time an H7N9 virus has been found to infect people. How many has it affected? H7N9 has infected 43 people in China, but...