英闻天下——504 Taiwan Reports 42 Suspected H7N9 Cases
时间：2013-04-17 05:39:41
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Health authorities on Taiwan say they're looking into 42 suspected human infections of the H7N9 bird flu.
However, no cases have yet been confirmed on the island.
Doctor Pei Chun-Zhan is with the Taiwan Center for Disease Control.
"The virus cannot transmit from man to man, and it is impossible to result in pandemic
influenza1 in a short period of time. However, we cannot be sure whether the virus will go through
mutation2 to cause the transmission from man to man. Currently, we still cannot exclude that possibility."
Two patients being treated on Taiwan did travel to the mainland cities of Suzhou and Shanghai.
Based on a seven-day
dormant3 period of virus, the middle of this month is going to be a critical moment for containing any
epidemic4 of H7N9.
The new strain of bird flu sickened 38 people on the mainland so far.
10 have died.
So far only one person - a 4-year old boy in Shanghai - has
fully5 recovered.
Authorities are still working through the theory that people are contracting the virus through direct contact with infected birds.
The authorities say there's been no discernable proof of people-to-people transmissions.
At least 16 people have been detained in different parts of the country for spreading online
rumors6 about the deadly virus.
Authorities in Hong Kong have started taking blood samples of
poultry7 imported from the mainland to test for H7N9.
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