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First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

At what stage is the spread of the H7N9 virus considered an epidemic?

loading...Question submitted by Patrick Carlson, from United States, April 29, 2013Answered by: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global HealthThe H7N9 virus, a new strain of the bird flu in China, has so farThere are three stages to infectious disease ... [Published Council On Foreign Relations - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Virus, Epidemic, H7N9

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

WHO Says The New Bird Flu Is One Of The Most Lethal Viruses They've Seen

The World Health Organization's (WHO) influenza expert, Keiji Fukuda, said bird flu H7N9 is "" and called the virus "unusually dangerous."Last week Fukuda said: "Anything can happen. We just don't know."The virus is about nine times as deadly as the Spanish ... [Published Business Insider - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Virus, Bird Flu, Taiwan, Keiji Fukuda, H7N9

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 2 reports

Has China Learned From SARS?

In a new report on the H7N9 flu outbreak, Chinese health officials warned on Wednesday that the death toll is likely to rise. From Karen Kaplan of the Los Angeles Times:In a report on the outbreak that began in China in February, doctors and researchers ... [Published China Digital Times - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, H7N9, China

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Should you be worried about bird flu?

An H7N9 bird flu patient is helped through a hospital in Bozhou, in China’s Anhui province. (STR/AFP/)Since the new avian flu strain H7N9 began appearing in China earlier this year, it’s infected over 100 people, killed 22, spread to five provinces plus ... [Published Washington Post - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Virus, Bird Flu, H7N9, Keiji Fukuda

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

News Of The H7N9 Bird Flu Was Broken Over China's Twitter

The story of the first death from China's new bird flu, dubbed H7N9, was broken by an employee at China's Hospital No. 5, in Shanghai, over China's twitter-like social network Weibo.The employee seemed to be upset because they were not provided with personal ... [Published Business Insider - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: H7N9, Bird Flu, China

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

Laurie Garrett on H7N9

It's far too early to write the definitive story of H7N9. But whoever does write it will have to include this remarkable article by Laurie Garrett in Foreign Policy.com: <a title="The Big One? - By Laurie Garrett|Foreign Policy" href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/23/the_big_one?page=full">The ... [Published H5N1 - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Laurie Garrett, H7N9, Influenza

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 1 reports

The Big One? - By Laurie Garrett

Is China covering up another flu pandemic -- or getting it right this time? ... [Published Foreign Policy - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Laurie Garrett, Pandemic, Influenza

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

20,000 Dead Pigs, Ducks and Swans in China Could Be Linked to New Human Bird Flu

Share this with a friendFollow us and never miss a story!The outbreak of a new strain of deadly human bird flu--H7N9--is spreading so rapidly in eastern China that Shanghai authorities are considering a permanent ban on the sale of live poultry in the ... [Published Opposing Views - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Bird Flu, H7N9, Virus

First reported Apr 05 2013 - Updated Apr 06 2013 - 1 reports

H7N9: A New Influenza Virus Emerges

This post originally appeared on April 4 at emptywheel.net and has been crossposted without changes, making a few of the time references a bit off. The post is in two parts. The first part deals with the news that a new flu virus has emerged. The second ... [Published Firedoglake - Apr 05 2013]

Entities: Virus, H7N9, Laurie Garrett, Influenza

First reported Apr 05 2013 - Updated Apr 05 2013 - 1 reports

Political risk must-reads

Eurasia Group’s weekly selection of essential reading for the political risk junkie – presented in no particular order. As always, feel free to give us your feedback or selections by tweeting at us via @EurasiaGroup or @ianbremmer . Must-reads ... [Published Ian Bremmer - Reuters.com - Apr 05 2013]

Entities: Chuck Hagel, Jorge Benitez, Manufacturing, Laurie Garrett, Mark Muro

First reported Apr 02 2013 - Updated Apr 02 2013 - 1 reports

Is This a Pandemic Being Born? - By Laurie Garrett

China's mysterious pig, duck, and people deaths could be connected. And that should worry us. ... [Published Foreign Policy - Apr 02 2013]

Entities: Laurie Garrett, Pandemic, China

First reported Apr 02 2013 - Updated Apr 02 2013 - 1 reports

H7N9 and literary theory

Via Foreign Policy.com, Laurie Garrett has a major, must-read article: <a title="Is This a Pandemic Being Born? - By Laurie Garrett|Foreign Policy" href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/01/is_this_a_pandemic_being_born_china_pigs_virus">Is ... [Published H5N1 - Apr 02 2013]

Entities: H7N9, Laurie Garrett, Pandemic, Virus

Quotes

The virus has mutations that make it infect humans, according to virologist Ron Fouchier, who told Laurie Garrett of Foreign Policy that "this virus really doesn't look like a bird virus anymore; it looks like a mammalian one."

WHO Says The New Bird Flu Is One Of The Most Lethal Viruses They've Seen [Published Business Insider - Apr 25 2013]

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The Big One? - By Laurie Garrett [Published Foreign Policy - Apr 24 2013]
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H7N9 Virus In China A Pandemic Threat? [Published FuturePundit - Apr 06 2013]
H7N9: A New Influenza Virus Emerges [Published Firedoglake - Apr 05 2013]
Political risk must-reads [Published Ian Bremmer - Reuters.com - Apr 05 2013]
H7N9 and literary theory [Published H5N1 - Apr 02 2013]
Is This a Pandemic Being Born? - By Laurie Garrett [Published Foreign Policy - Apr 02 2013]
China: 191 more dead pigs in Huangpu [Published H5N1 - Mar 25 2013]
Laurie Garrett is furious and you should be too [Published H5N1 - Dec 21 2012]

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Laurie Garrett on H7N9 [Published H5N1 - Apr 24 2013] It's far too early to write the definitive story of H7N9. But whoever does write it will have to include this remarkable article by Laurie Garrett in Foreign Policy.com: <a title="The Big One? - By Laurie Garrett\|Foreign Policy" href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/23/the_big_one?page=full">The ...
The Big One? - By Laurie Garrett [Published Foreign Policy - Apr 24 2013] Is China covering up another flu pandemic -- or getting it right this time? ...
H7N9 Virus In China A Pandemic Threat? [Published FuturePundit - Apr 06 2013] Laurie Garrett, she the author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, has a piece in Foreign Policy about worries that the H7N9 influenza virus in China could break out into a major pandemic. Here's how it would happen. ...
H7N9: A New Influenza Virus Emerges [Published Firedoglake - Apr 05 2013] This post originally appeared on April 4 at emptywheel.net and has been crossposted without changes, making a few of the time references a bit off. The post is in two parts. The first part deals with the news that a new flu virus has emerged. The second ...
Political risk must-reads [Published Ian Bremmer - Reuters.com - Apr 05 2013] Eurasia Group’s weekly selection of essential reading for the political risk junkie – presented in no particular order. As always, feel free to give us your feedback or selections by tweeting at us via @EurasiaGroup or @ianbremmer . Must-reads ...