Blog Tag - Bird Flu

Black Swans test positive for bird flu at Old Summer Palace
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...
Woman Carrying Bird Flu in Critical Condition, Quarantined in Beijing
On Monday, the China National Health Commission reported that a case of human avian influenza A (H5N6), commonly known as bird flu, had been...
Best of the Blog: Notable Happenings From Last Month
  Every month we tally the hits from thebeijinger.com and bring you the top five most viewed blogs. 1. OVER 60 MODELS ARRESTED IN BEIJING POLICE...
20,000 Ducks Drop Dead in Beijing Suburb, Bird Flu Suspected
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...
Year of the Bird: First 2014 Case of H7N9 Confirmed in Beijing
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's Back (and Never Really Went Away): New H7N9 Case Reported
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...
H7N9: Even More Reasons to Worry
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...
Not Good: WHO Says Some Cases of H7N9 Have No Links to Poultry
Some not-so-reassuring news via Reuters today: The World Health Organization has reported that some patients with H7N9 have had "no history of...
Should We Be Chicken of Chicken? Bird Flu Advice
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 Shunyi Girl is Beijing's First Confirmed Case of Bird Flu
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...
Avian Flu On the Rise: What You Should Know About A(H7N9)
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...
Avian Flu: Beijing Hospitals Take Precautions
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...