NEW: First H7N9 bird flu case in Taiwan has been reported, health officials say. Death toll from China's bird flu outbreak 23, with 110 infections -- includes one in Taiwan. WHO's Keiji Fukuda ...

H7N9 bird flu cases spike in China ahead of Lunar New Year, with 19 deaths and 96 humans infected in January alone, China’s official Xinhua news agency says.

In late March 2013, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first three human cases of a new strain of bird flu, designated H7N9. Several people have since died as a ...

The H7N9 strain of bird flu was detected on a poultry farm in Mississippi. The infection of 47,654 commercial chickens was confirmed on March 13 by the World Organization for Animal Health.

Suspected cases of H7N9 virus infection among hospitalized patients with pneumonia were identified through the Chinese surveillance system for pneumonia of unknown origin, which was established in ...

The H7N9 bird flu strain was first reported by Chinese authorities in March. There have been 134 cases including 43 deaths in China and Taiwan linked to the virus, ...

H7N9 virus infection was diagnosed by means of serologic analysis alone in only 1 patient, in Shanghai, with negative results on real-time RT-PCR assay and viral culture.

“H7N9 viruses should be considered as a major candidate to emerge as a pandemic strain in humans,” they wrote in a study published Wednesday by the journal Nature. Advertisement.

H7N9 in particular had never been known to infect humans at all before 2013, when it caused an unexpected epidemic in China. It was billed as low-pathogenic (or “low-path”) because it only ...

The World Health Organization says that at least 135 people in China have been sickened by the H7N9 flu strain, and 44 have died. Ducks played key role in China's H7N9 flu outbreak, scientists say ...

NEW: First H7N9 bird flu case in Taiwan has been reported, health officials say. Death toll from China's bird flu outbreak 23, with 110 infections -- includes one in Taiwan. WHO's Keiji Fukuda ...