date:Apr 10, 2013
tion says the outbreak is a devastating blow for the industry.
The public in China is being told to avoid direct contact with poultry.
The type of containment strategy China is using on the current H7N9 has been successful in the past with other novel avian influenza A viruses. The H5N1 virus was did not get any further than several Asian countries and Egypt. The H7N3 virus recently did not get out of Mexico.
The WHO reported in 2011 that the H5N1 outbreak in those several Asian counties and