H7N9 snapdate: accumulating cases by region of acquisition

Click on image to enlarge.This is what happens when you do nothing to stem the possible source of an influenza outbreak in your back yard. Nothing. Nothing changes.The infection keeps spreading. Very clearly the H7N9 hotzone in China has now shifted from Zhejiang province to...

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Zhejiang province leads the way in H7N9 cases and their decline 3-weeks after market closures...

Click on image to enlarge.It's the Province in China that has seen more H7N9 cases confirmed in human than any other Province (39% of all cases have originated here). It reached 50 cases faster in 2014 than 2013. It closed its markets back in 24-Jan. And for a little while it kept finding...

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H7N9 case announcements dropping: is Wave 2 under control? [UPDATED]

Its a very tough question to answer. There has been public pressure by China's poultry-farming groups on China to take measures to stem the industry's financial losses. These have been driven by the public concern that H7N9 can seriously afflict people and in about a fifth of recorded instances,...

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H7N9 keeps changing and mingling and mixing...

A new report in Eurosurveillance out today has once again raised the spectre of a pandemic H7N9 spread. Not just for what the Meng and colleagues from China and the United States have shown in their detailed analysis of the PB1 gene segment of (mostly) avian influenza A(H7N9) viruses from humans birds and the environment in 2013, but also for what they have indirectly highlighted:...

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Thoughts from Bangalore, India: The East Teaching the West in Mental HealthWhen discussing global mental health, the conversation often focuses on whether psychiatrists can practice outside of their cultural context. What we sometimes forget is that psychiatric illness is organic illness of the brain,...

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Just in!

After 27 hours of travel, Dr. EJ Caterson and I landed in Guwahati, India.  Even though neither of us had ever been here, the place has the familiarity of any town in the so-called �developing� nations.  It reminded me of the border towns in Lima, Peru, of the South countryside of Dominican Republic, of the Mayan towns away from touristy Yucat�n, of some of the forgotten towns around my...

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First Taiwan, then Hong Kong, now Malaysia becomes a holiday destination for an H7N9 case...[UPDATED x2]

Mike Coston has just made us aware via a Tweet that avian influenza A(H7N9) virus has escaped its usual roosting ground in southern eastern China by hitching a lift in a tourist to Malaysia. A more detailed post on his Avian Flu Diary wrangles the issue of language...

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H7N9 snapdate: H7N9 totals by month, 2013 vs 2014 to date

Click on image to enlarge.January has so far tallied 1.6x more cases than the peak month of 2013 which was April. And those cases are still being reported.But only 2 lab-confirmed cases were added to the list last night, perhaps things have started to slow at last? That is extrapolating...

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