IN FEBRUARY an 87-year-old man was admitted to hospital in Shanghai.
What started as a cough progressed to a fever. One week later, unable to
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same hospital with similar symptoms. He died too, within a week. A
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first three cases of a strain of influenza, H7N9, that had never before been seen in humans.
The government responded quickly?a far cry from its reaction, ten years
ago, to a similar cluster of cases in Guangdong. That infection turned
out to be SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). At first, officials
tried to hide that disease. The deceit served to ensure its spread and
it went on to kill nearly 800 people. Much has changed in lululemon yoga outlet
past decade. This time officials quickly posted H7N9’s genetic sequence, then published a detailed report in lululemon outlet online
New England Journal of Medicine.
Even so, H7N9 has infected at least 82 people and killed 17 of them. The
virus’s path of transmission is not well understood. The recent
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