Blog Tag - Bird Flu
The Old Summer Palace is facing a literal black swan event. Three of the park’s nesting community of Cygnus atratus (Black Swans) died last month...
On Monday, the China National Health Commission reported that a case of human avian influenza A (H5N6), commonly known as bird flu, had been...
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1. OVER 60 MODELS ARRESTED IN BEIJING POLICE...
In news that is sure to set you off your next planned Beijing duck banquet, over 20,000 ducks in a poultry farm in suburban Beijing have died...
UPDATE January 27, 2014 3:15pm Since this story published, new information has been received indicating that a second patient, with a new strain of...
It has been about a month since we have heard of any new cases of H7N9, now a 61-year-old woman from Hebei province is the latest one. The woman...
Before you roll your eyes at yet another H7N9 post, consider this: The numbers may be just a drop in the bucket compared to the population at large...
Some not-so-reassuring news via Reuters today: The World Health Organization has reported that some patients with H7N9 have had "no history of...
Bird flu has us all in a frenzy lately, and with the 14 deaths and 63 infected in Beijing and Shanghai combined, it's really no wonder. But with the...
A 7-year-old girl from a family of Shunyi poultry sellers is Beijing's first confirmed case of H7N9. According to a report in the Wall Street...
Shanghai's been going through a rough patch lately - first it was tens of thousands of dead pigs found dumped in the Huangpu river and now two new...
You may have already heard, but H7N9, a strain of bird flu not yet found in humans, has been reported in Shanghai, according to several media...