Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

WHO confirms H7N9 cases as labs track risks

The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed four recent novel H7N9 avian flu cases, as scientists revealed their latest risk assessments based on genetic monitoring and lab tests.
In a statement, the WHO said it has received reports of two infections from China's Zhejiang province, which include cases involving a 57-year-old man and a 30-year-old man who is his son-in-law. Some machine translations of a Chinese-language media report had suggested the two were father and son.

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Source: CIDRAP
Image credits: WHO


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