Thursday, December 19, 2013

A New Outbreak of Influenza?

In China a new out break of the Avian Influenza virus has recently occurred. The first being a 39 year old man of the Guangdong Province had contracted the virus on December sixth of this year and omitted in the hospital on December eleventh, five days after the man contracted the virus. Another patient, a 65 year old woman of the same province was exposed to live poultry and became ill on the eleventh of December and omitted into the hospital on December fifteenth.

This is an amazing finding because no evidence on human to human transmission was found. it had been contracted from being around live animals. Any kind of flu can be an epidemic. Just like the Spanish Influenza that had killed many people.  It adds curiosity to the minds of many because the Chinese do not know how the virus was spread to two separate individuals. Avian Flu, New Cases Emerge

1 comment:

  1. This article seems interesting. I'm curious to know if there were any other cases noted after finding the two cases mentioned in the article. I also found it amazing that the virus was not spread from person to person, as we usually see influenza being spread.

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