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Monday, April 1, 2013

The possibility of avian-human transmission is high"


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  Zhang Fengyi stressed not yet found of human infection with H7N9, and the border, the hospital has been full alert, "avian flu epidemic prevention staff nervous, like, people do not have to panic." CDC director Jih-Haw Chou said yesterday airports, ports intercept 23 fever passengers to return to Taiwan from China, Hong Kong, Macau, asking no birds history of exposure to avian flu initially ruled dye without hospital inspection.
  Domestic experts are more cautious about the epidemic. National Taiwan University Hospital, director of infection in children, Li-Min Huang said, China on 3 patients with full-stained Hu severe respiratory tract judgments Shanghai, Anhui, there are quite a number of birds, animals with H7N9 virus, avian descendant of a high probability. Ih-Jen Su, director of the National Institutes of Health, Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Institute, believes that the analysis of 3 people associate and communicate location, the epidemic fear has spread, does not rule out limited human-human transmission.