H7N9 bird flu

China has culled 80,000 chickens in the country's north after detecting an outbreak of H7N9 bird flu on a farm of layer hens, said the agriculture ministry on Friday.

Three Chinese people have died of the H7N9 bird flu, the state news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday, adding to a spike in cases this year.

H7N9 bird flu cases spike in China ahead of Lunar New Year, with 22 deaths and 110 humans infected in January alone, Xinhua reports.

China has reportedly downgraded H7N9 bird flu in humans, dropping its description as "infectious" in new guidelines on how to deal with the disease, even as new cases spike with the onset of winter.

Chinese scientists on Wednesday reported the first likely case of direct person-to-person transmission of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed over 40 people since March.

The H7N9 bird flu has spread to the central province of Hunan, local health authorities said.

International experts probing China's deadly H7N9 bird flu virus said Wednesday it was "one of the most lethal influenza viruses".

Another two new H7N9 bird flu infections were confirmed in China as of 4 pm on Monday, bringing the total cases to 104, including 21 deaths.

China reported eight new human cases of H7N9 bird flu on Tuesday, all of them in critical condition, bringing the total number across the country to 71, state media said.

China's H7N9 bird flu virus spread to a new province on Sunday, with state media reporting two human cases in central Henan.

A seven-year-old girl in Beijing has been infected with H7N9 bird flu, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported Saturday, the first confirmed case in the Chinese capital.

A sixth person has died of H7N9 bird flu in China, state media said Friday, after authorities culled poultry at a Shanghai market where the virus was detected.

A man in the Chinese province of Zhejiang has died of the H7N9 strain of bird flu, state media said Wednesday, bringing the total deaths attributed to the virus to three since the first human cases.

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