date:Apr 07, 2013
onfirmed cases involved diseased poultry and that there has been no sign of human-to-human transmission.
On Saturday, Shanghai banned live poultry from other parts of the country from entering the city and began mass slaughter of birds after H7N9 was found in pigeon samples from a farm-product market in the city's Songjiang district.
Shanghai's largest live poultry market, Sanguantang Market, stopped operations early on Saturday. More than 160 traders have left the market, and workers from the