The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it is gathering more information and is beginning to prepare to develop a vaccine against H7N9.
From April 6, visitors entering via Tan Son Nhat airport must go through a body temperature meter. Persons with a body temperature above 37 degrees C must report their health
According to Xinhua on April 6, China approved Peramivir, a new anti-flu drug that is believed to effectively treat the H7N9 bird flu virus.
A 4-year-old patient in Shanghai, the only case of health recovery after determining infection with influenza virus H7N9 treated with Tamiflu, a drug to prevent influenza A
The H7N9 influenza virus strain has a combination of genes between East Asian wild birds and farmed chickens in Shanghai city, Zhejiang province and China's Jiangsu province.
Wash your hands thoroughly, avoid contact with dead poultry, thoroughly cook poultry meat when preparing food, which are the top principles to help people prevent influenza A /
A 4-year-old boy in Beijing, China tested positive for the H7N9 influenza virus, identified as a host of the deadly H7N9 influenza virus, Xinhua reported on April 15.
In just 22 hours from April 18, April 15 to 10 pm on April 16, China detected 14 more cases of H7N9 infection, bringing the number of infected people to 77, Xinhua reported.
Until the afternoon of April 21, China had 102 cases of H7N9 infection, of which 20 died, Xinhua reported.
The two deaths were all in Shanghai, China. Among them, there was an 87-year-old grandfather, who began to show symptoms on February 19 and died 8 days later.