SARS-like virus has sickened at least 160 worldwide
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Bird Flu: China Reports 102 H7N9 Cases, 20 Deaths
Experts are suspecting human-to-human transmission, but there is no evidence confirming this yet
Bird-Flu Cover-Up? Chinese Social Media Out Possible Cases of Deadly Disease
The fact that a deadly strain of influenza has hatched in China isn’t surprising. But what is new this time is the level of scrutiny the Chinese themselves are giving to the H7N9 virus
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Chinese officials announced that the death toll from recent floods in Beijing was 77, not the earlier reported 37. Despite the authorities’ recent pledges of openness, an instinct to tightly control information remains in the …
A Bus Driver in Southern China Dies of Bird Flu. Could the Deadly Virus Strike Again?
News that a bus driver from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of the H5N1 bird-flu virus on Dec. 31 was greeted with a shrug in the nation that serves as the breeding ground for some of the world’s nastiest viruses. …