bird flu in china

A 64-year-old farmer in Zhejiang Province, eastern China, was confirmed as the next H7N9 infection, bringing the total number of bird flu cases in China to 4 this fall.

Medical experts believe that they have discovered the first case of the H7N9 avian influenza virus transmitted from person to person in China.

Chinese scientists have published a new discovery that a variant of the H7N9 avian influenza virus can bind to receptors - the receptor from the external environment - of humans.