Editor's note #12

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Latest H7N9 map.

VDU's Editor-in-Chief (okay it's just me - I also get coffee and sweep up the keyboard at the end of the day) was asked to comment on the recent influenza A (H7N9) virus case in Hong Kong.


See Bloomberg's latest article here.

�Respiratory viruses do their own thing; they don�t respect boundaries,� said Ian Mackay, an associate professor of clinical virology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, in a telephone interview. �It does seems that it�s continuing to add to provinces and regions, rather than reappear in all the old places it started in back in February and March.�

References...

1. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-02/hong-kong-confirms-city-s-first-human-case-of-bird-flu.html