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Selasa, 30 April 2013

Bird flu (avian influenza)


Prevention

By Mayo Clinic staff
Bird flu vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration has approved one vaccine to prevent infection with one strain of H5N1 bird flu virus. This vaccine isn't available to the public, but the U.S. government is stockpiling it and will distribute it in the event of an outbreak. It's intended to help protect adults ages 18 to 64 and could be used early in such an outbreak to provide limited protection until another vaccine — designed to protect against the specific form of the virus causing the outbreak — is developed and produced. Researchers continue to work on other types of bird flu vaccines.
Recommendations for travelers
If you're traveling to Southeast Asia or to any region with bird flu outbreaks, consider these public health recommendations:
  • Avoid domesticated birds. If possible, avoid rural areas, small farms and open-air markets.
  • Wash your hands. This is one of the simplest and best ways to prevent infections of all kinds. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer containing at least 60 percent alcohol when you travel.
  • Ask about a flu shot. Before traveling, ask your doctor about a flu shot. It won't protect you specifically from bird flu, but it may help reduce the risk of simultaneous infection with bird and human flu viruses.
Poultry and egg products
Because heat destroys avian viruses, cooked poultry isn't a health threat. Even so, it's best to take precautions when handling and preparing poultry, which may be contaminated with salmonella or other harmful bacteria.
  • Avoid cross-contamination. Use hot, soapy water to wash cutting boards, utensils and all surfaces that have come into contact with raw poultry.
  • Cook thoroughly. Cook chicken until the juices run clear, and it reaches a minimum internal temperature of 165 F (74 C).
  • Steer clear of raw eggs. Because eggshells are often contaminated with bird droppings, avoid foods containing raw or undercooked eggs.

Jumaat, 26 April 2013

Seorang Lagi Pegawai Kastam Ditembak

Semakin banyak pula kes tembak-menembak sejak akhir-akhir ini. Dengan kes ragutnya, rompakannya sehinggalah membawa kepada pembunuhan. Berita terkini yang baru sahaja Berita Semasa terima. Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Kastam, Dato’ Hj. Shaharudin telah pun meninggal dunia. Sebabnya? 
Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Kastam, Dato’ Hj. Shaharudin Ibrahim telah ditembak tiga das tembakan yang mana salah satu darinya terkena dikepala. Sebelum ini keadaannya cukup kritikal dan akhirnya Dato’ Hj. Shaharudin Ibrahim telah kembali kerahmatullah sebentar tadi berdasarkan maklumat yang Berita Semasa terima dari pihak HQ.
  • Dato' Hj. Shaharudin IbrahimKejadian ketika Dato’ Hj. Shaharudin Ibrahim dalam perjalanan ke pejabatnya di Putrajaya, 8 pagi ini
  • Kena tembak di lampu isyarat Presint 8
  • Penembak menaiki kereta
  • Tiga das tembakan dilepaskan terkena di bahagian leher dan juga dikepala di dalam kereta Dato’ Hj. Shaharudin Ibrahim
  • Dato’ Hj. Shaharudin Ibrahim dikejarkan Unit Kecemasan Hospiral Putrajaya
  • Sekarang ini post mortem sedang dilakukan di Hospital Putrajaya.
  • Besar kemungkinan selepas ini jenazah akan dibawa balik ke Negeri Sembilan
Dato’ Shaharuddin Bin Haji Ibrahim (Timbalan Pengarah Kastam Bahagian Perkastaman/Cukai Dalam Negeri) cukup terdedah dengan risiko besar dan menggalas tugas yang cukup mencabar….Arwah menjaga cdn import eksport pertek.
Apa bidang tugas bahagian cukai dalam negeri dan perkastaman buat?
  • pertama mana-mana perniagaan yang layak dilesenkan dan dikenakan cukai dibawah akta cukai perkhidmatan, cukai jualan. (cukai dalam negeri).
  • keduanya, pengawalan barang-barang bercukai keluar/ masuk ke negara kita. Pelabuhan-pelabuhan dan juga mana lapangan terbang yang mempunyai kargo udara. (perkastaman) termasuk barang-barang yang dibawa masuk melalui pejabat pos.
Jadi…lubuk besar mana yang terancam jika cara kerja arwah ini betul-betul dilaksanakan mengikut lunas undang-undang?
Ada kaitannya?
Shaharudin Ibrahim
Kastam rampas dadah RM14 juta2013/03/18 – 19:19:37 PM
Nilai: Kastam Diraja Malaysia merampas 73 kilogram dadah jenis syabu bernilai RM14 juta yang cuba diseludup ke negara ini melalui kargo udara Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) dari India.
Pihak kastam menyerbu sebuah premis kediaman di Taman Sri Merdeka, Ampang pada Jumaat lalu dan menemui dadah itu disembunyikan dalam 17 kotak daripada 50 kotak yang diikrarkan sebagai ‘Fresh Cut Roses’.
Sumber : Sinar Harian
Dan,  sebagai Umat Islam, sama-samalah kita sedekahkan Al-Fatihah buat arwah semoga arwah Dato’ Hj. Shaharudin ditempatkan bersama hamba-hambaNya yang beriman. Ketika berita ini dilaporkan Berita Semasa, ramai sudah sahabat handai pergi ziarahi di hospital tadi. Al-Fathah, Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un.

Rabu, 24 April 2013

Symptom-Free Bird Flu Case Suggests Wider H7N9 Spread


Bird flu was found in a 4-year-old Beijing boy who has no symptoms of the infection, health authorities said, suggesting more people may be catching the H7N9 influenza virus than reported.
The first asymptomatic H7N9 case was discovered by health- care workers searching for possible cases, the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau said in a statement on its website today. The boy’s parents are poultry and fish sellers, and their neighbors across the street had bought chicken sold by the family of a 7- year-old girl whose H7N9 infection was reported two days ago.
A TV broadcast shows a seven-year-old girl, left, lying in her bed in an ICU of Beijing Ditan hospital, at a press conference to update the situation on the disease in Beijing on April 13, 2013. Source: AFP/Getty Images
April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Malik Peiris, professor of medical science at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health, talks about the outbreak of deadly bird flu in China. He speaks with Susan Li on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg)
April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the World Health Organization, discusses the outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza in China. He speaks from Geneva with Francine Lacqua and Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse." (Source: Bloomberg)
The boy is under medical observation. The case suggests some H7N9 infections may be going unrecorded because of a lack of obvious symptoms. Almost all of the 64 people diagnosed with the virus so far have been extremely unwell, with complications extending to brain damage, multi-organ failure and muscle breakdown.
“With asymptomatic cases around, I think everything changes,” said Ian Mackay, an associate professor of clinical virology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, in a telephone interview today. “There has been a spike in pneumonia cases that have drawn the health officials’ attention, but the virus may have been going around as a normal cold.”
The boy’s infection was picked up as part of contact tracing -- a process whereby relatives, neighbors and others known to have been in contact with a confirmed case are screened for the virus. The boy was one of 24 people tested in connection with the 7-year-old girl’s infection.
Sick or Not?
“It’s great that the authorities are showing some evidence of prospective screening of contacts, not just asking people if they are sick or not,” Mackay said. “It’s essential that lab testing of contacts is carried out as soon as possible to give us some information about the denominator: how many cases are positive for this virus, whether they’re symptomatic or not.”
The parents of the 7-year-old patient live and sell poultry in the Shunyi district of northeast Beijing. Her case was the first in northern China, demonstrating that the virus is circulating across much of the country’s east.
The girl is recovering after treatment at Beijing Ditan Hospital Capital Medical University, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday, citing the city’s disease control and prevention center.

Positive Response

Her positive response shows that early treatment with proper antiviral medication can be effective, Michael O’Leary, WHO’s China representative, told reporters in Beijing yesterday.
“We know also that the virus, when untreated, is very serious,” he said. “We advocate for early treatment and good medical care.”
The cases in Beijing and two in Henan province widen the geographic spread of H7N9, adding impetus to the government’s efforts to gauge the magnitude of the infection in poultry and wild birds.
Shanghai’s government reported two deaths yesterday, and another was reported in Jiangsu today, taking the country’s death toll from the outbreak to 14.
Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong, touring Shanghai and nearby Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces yesterday, called on medical workers to pay more attention to the development of the virus, speed up the study of the strain and stem the spread of the disease, the official Xinhua news agency reported today.
A new case was detected in Zhejiang today, and another infection was reported in a 60-year-old man in Anhui province, the local health departments said on their websites.
Human Vectors?
There’s no evidence that the virus is spreading easily among people, a critical feature preventing it from developing into an epidemic. The H5N1 bird flu strain, which killed at least 371 people over the past decade, also hasn’t acquired the ability to spread easily among people. In 2009, a novel swine flu virus, known as H1N1, touched off the first influenza pandemic in 41 years.
A surge in bird flu cases in China increases the pandemic potential of the H7N9 strain, according to a Beijing-based supplier of influenza vaccines to the Chinese government.
Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (SVA), the first company to win regulatory approval for a swine flu shot in 2009, is preparing to make immunizations against the new virus. The Nasdaq-traded company will hold off producing the shots until it’s received an order from the state, said Chief Executive Officer Yin Weidong.

Pandemic Threat

“The risk of this becoming a pandemic is increasing,” Yin said in an interview at the company’s headquarters in the Chinese capital, where a second H7N9 infection was reported today.
Sinovac has notified its suppliers that it may need to order additional fertilized chicken eggs to produce H7N9 vaccine, Yin said.
Under an agreement with China’s Food and Drug Administration, a Sinovac vaccine for pandemic flu doesn’t need to undergo clinical testing because its production methods have already been approved and the pandemic flu vaccine would represent only a change in the viral strain, he said.
Based on typical vaccine development and production schedules, batches could be ready for commercial use as early as late July, Yin said, adding that he is urging the World Health Organization and its affiliated labs to expedite the preparation of seed strains.
Sinovac has the capacity to produce about 30 million to 40 million doses of flu vaccine annually, said Yin, who founded the company in 2001 to make immunizations for hepatitis. The price to the Chinese government is about 20 yuan ($3.23) a piece, he said.

Experts Fly In

Four international flu experts will arrive in China within days to help authorities respond to the country’s widening bird- flu emergency, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Nancy Cox, director of the flu division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta; Anne Kelso, director of a World Health Organization center for flu research inMelbourne; Malik Peiris, chairman of virology at the University of Hong Kong; and Angus Nicoll, head of the Stockholm-based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s flu program, will arrive midweek to offer technical advice, said the people, who declined to be identified because the Chinese government hasn’t announced that the experts are being invited.
The group will seek to assist Chinese authorities grappling to identify the source and mode of transmission of the H7N9 avian influenza.
Cox referred questions to the WHO, while Kelso, Peiris and Nicoll didn’t respond to e-mails seeking comment. Gregory Hartl, a spokesman for the Geneva-based WHO, said the agency has discussed a mission to China, but declined to comment on specifics. Two calls to the press office of China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission weren’t answered.

'Smart guns' could be next step in gun control


A proposal to expand background checks failed in Washington, but several entrepreneurs say they have a different answer to curbing gun violence.

They're using technology to create guns that only fire in the right hands. These so-called smart guns can recognize a watch, a ring or even just a grip.
For more than a decade, researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology have been working on a grip-recognizing gun similar to the one James Bond uses in "Skyfall."
Sensors on the grip -- similar to the touchpad on a laptop -- measure the pressure applied and the size and shape of the hand holding the gun.
"If a child tries to grab the gun, their hand geometry is actually going to be smaller," said NJIT Associate Professor Michael Recce. "So they're not going to touch the sensors, and they're not going to be able to fire the gun."
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 232,000 guns are stolen every year. Recce says these criminals would not be able to use a grip-recognizing gun.
Another company, Armatix, uses radio frequency technology in its weapons, which unlock with a watch and a PIN. If someone who isn't wearing the watch grabs the gun, it immediately deactivates.
"Anybody who picks up the handgun, whether it's a child or it's actively stolen, they can't activate the watch," said Belinda Padilla, president and CEO of Armatix USA.
Armatix already sells these personalized guns in Europe and Asia.
Triggersmart, founded by Irish entrepreneur Robert McNamara, also uses radio frequency technology to enable -- and disable -- guns. The chip that activates the gun can be placed in a ring, bracelet or potentially even embedded in the owner's hand.
Personalized weapons makers say their products are effective and inexpensive. But even so, none are available in the United States, due to lack of demand from gun makers and owners.
With guns in the national spotlight, that could soon change. These entrepreneurs have discussed their technology with the attorney general, and Obama touted smart guns in his23-point plan to reduce gun violence in the wake of the Newtown shooting.
Several other gun control measures -- including background checks and an assault weapon ban -- recently failed, but smart guns are still on the table. Rep. John Tierney, a Massachusetts Democrat, plans to introduce a House bill in the next few weeks requiring that all guns include personalization technology within two years.
The smart-gun makers say their products could have prevented the tragedy in Newtown, but critics are doubtful.
"The firearms were accessible to Adam Lanza. They should not have been," said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. "If [Mrs. Lanza] had one that had this sort of authorized user recognition onboard the firearm, presumably he would've had access to that."
Keane isn't completely against personalized weapons, but he says the technology isn't reliable enough yet and could even make guns more dangerous.
"It can actually encourage people to leave loaded firearms accessible, relying upon the technology which can fail at the most inopportune time," he said.
The NRA has previously expressed concerns about personalized weapons as well. They did not respond to requests for comment for this story.Personalized gunmakers agree that this technology won't stop all gun violence, but they say it could be an important step."Personalized handguns and personalized technology will save lives of many people and children," said Padilla. To top of page

Selasa, 16 April 2013

Dr Mahathir tidak menguntungkan BN, tetapi membantu Pakatan Rakyat — Aspan Alias


APRIL 15, 2013
15 APRIL — Kalau kita fikir betul-betul Pakatan Rakyat patut berterima kasih kepada Dr Mahahir kerana membantu barisan alternatif itu dari dalam Umno semasa pilihanraya kali ini. Dr Mahathir sekarang sedang sibuk berkempen untuk Umno yang kebanyakan tindakan beliau itu menjadi “counter productive” untuk Umno. Keadaan ini ditambah pula dengan tindakan beliau berkehendakkan Ibrahim Ali, Presiden Perkasa menjadi calon BN dalam pilihanraya kali ini. Tindakan Dr Mahathir itu tidak selari dengan perkembangan kemajuan pemikiran rakyat hari ini.
Rakyat tahu Umno dalam keadaan serba salah dengan kehadiran Dr Mahathir dalam urusan Umno sekarang ini. Bekas Perdana Menteri itu menjadi beban besar kepada Umno dan membuatkan parti itu tidak dapat melaksanakan perancangan parti dalam PRU ini kerana terganggu dengan campur tangan Dr Mahathir dalam banyak isu parti. Itulah sebabnya Abdullah Ahmad Badawi akhir-akhir ini lebih mendapat perhatian sebagai seorang bekas PM yang lebih berhemah daripada Dr Mahathir.
Kita bukannya marah kepada Dr Mahathir kerana memilih untuk memihak sebab itu adalah hak individu dalam sebuah demokrasi. Tetapi yang tidak diselesakan oleh banyak pihak jika berkempen biarlah bersandarkan kepada moral dan semangat demokrasi yang betul. Adalah kurang moralnya jika beliau menjadikan isu perkauman sebagai modal kempen beliau.
Kita mempunyai matlamat penyatuan kaum sebagai agenda nasional kita. Oleh itu demokrasi kita ini mesti berlandaskan pada penyatuan kaum dan jangan sekali-kali memecahkan perhubungan di antara kaum semata-mata untuk demokrasi acuan beliau itu. Dr Mahathir tidak perlu menyentuh isu perkauman kerana selama ini BN sendiri yang memperjuangkan isu ini. Tetapi apabila BN sudah jelas menghadapi tentangan kerana kelemahan yang lain, memilih untuk memecahkan perpaduan kaum itu adalah tindakan yang kurang bermoral.
Dr Mahathir boleh melakukan tentangan terhadap Pakatan Rakyat secara demokratik kerana beliau memihak kepada BN. Itu tidak mengapa, tetapi janganlah hendaknya terkeluar daripada lunas demokrasi yang kita sedang perjuangkan. Semata-mata kerana BN menghampiri kekalahan, beliau sanggup membinasakan asas kehidupan bermuhibbah di antara kaum itu. Dalam satu-satu tindakan kita mesti ada etikanya, ada moralnya dan lebih-lebih lagi ada agamanya. Jangan terkeluar dari garisan kerana keluar garisan itu adalah salah dan kurang bermoralnya.
Kalau hendak “memahat itu biarlah di atas garisan dan jika hendak bermain itu mesti berada di dalam kawasan yang ada hadnya”. Dr Mahathir adalah seorang yang begitu “senior” dan beliau perlu mempunyai tata-cara yang baik untuk membantu BN itu. Kalau berhujah itu, jangan berhujah secara loyar buruk. Beliau mesti sedar yang beliau bukannya muda lagi.
Jadilah seorang “elder statesman” yang dihormati. Jika tua kita mesti tunjukkan tua kita. Jangan kita tunjukkan kelemahan kita dengan melanggar budaya dan sopan kita masyarakat timur ini. Rakyat memerhatikan semua tingkah laku pemimpin dan sikap pemimpin itu menjadi isu yang utama yang dijadikan asas untuk memilih.
Demokrasi ini bukan setakat hendak menang dan mengalahkan pihak lawan sahaja. Kita mesti terima demokrasi dengan semangatnya sekali. Kalau rakyat mahukan pihak lain untuk memerintah mereka kita perlu menerimanya. Lagipun BN sudah memerintah sejak merdeka. Terimalah semangat demokrasi ini dengan baik dan jika sudah sampai masanya bagi BN untuk menduduki petak pembangkang, kita terima sahaja.
Jangan kita pecahkan rakyat berbilang kaum ini. Rakyat pun mahu melihat “kepanasan” politik ini “disejukkan” secepat yang mungkin. Jika ditakdirkan BN menjadi pembangkang jadilah pembangkang yang baik.
PAS dan DAP sejak dulu lagi menjadi pembangkang. Jika kali ini mereka menjadi kerajaan itu bukannya jenayah demokrasi. Mempertahankan kuasa kerajaan dengan memecahkan kaum yang berbilang itu, adalah jenayah. Jika berlaku pergaduhan hasil dari kenyataan Dr Mahathir ini, ia merupakan hasil dari kenyataan yang ber“elemen”kan jenayah.
Memecahkan perhubungan di antara kaum itu merupakan satu tindakan “treason” dari sudut moralnya, atau mungkin dari sudut undang-undangnya. Lebih-lebih lagi ia bersalahan dengan kehendak mana-mana agama, lebih-lebih lagi agama Islam.
Kita terimalah hakikat yang melakukan peralihan kuasa itu bukannya jenayah dan tidak merupakan tindakan jenayah. Kalau Mahathir tidak mahu berperanan sebagai orang tua, biarlah kami yang di bawah ini menjadi orang tua itu.
Sekianlah bunyinya kata-kata kami sebagai orang tua negara ini. Kita ambil alih lah tugas yang sepatutnya dipikul oleh Dr Mahathir itu. Apa yang kami perkatakan ini bukannya untuk kebaikan sesiapa, tetapi untuk kebaikan Dr Mahathir sendiri.
Beliau bukannya bekas Ketua Pengarah Kemas atau bekas Ketua Pengarah JASA, tetapi bekas Perdana Menteri yang paling lama mentadbir negara. Sepatutnya adalah sedikit perbezaan dengan pemimpin lain jika benar beliau itu seorang negarawan. — aspanaliasnet.blogspot.com
* Ini adalah pendapat peribadi penulis dan tidak semestinya mewakili pandangan The Malaysian Insider.

Jumaat, 12 April 2013

Horsemeat scandal's prime suspect revealed

Tycoon: Willy Selten


This is the tycoon Dutch ­authorities suspect may have flooded Europe with 50,000 tons of beef ­contaminated with horsemeat.
Willy Selten has become a leading suspect in the food scandal which has seen tainted meat sold by British supermarkets in ready meals and burgers.
Selten, who lives in a £1.5million house near Oss, Netherlands, owns two wholesalers being probed by officials.
The Dutch government initially denied any involvement in the scandal.
But this week officials recalled 50,000 tons of suspect beef sold by Selten’s firms, Wiljo Import en Export BV and ­Vleesgroothandel Willy Selten.
They have advised 370 companies across 16 countries to remove the beef from the food chain.
Selten became known to the authorities last May when meat supplied by his wholesaler tested positive for horse painkiller bute – which can be dangerous when consumed by humans.
But Selten’s huge meat businesses continued to operate.
Now investigators cannot find the paperwork that would help them trace the suspect beef’s source.
The beef – equivalent to 450 million quarter-pounder burgers – is worth £500million and was sold by Selten between January 2011 and February this year.
But millionaire Selten has failed to pay his 120 workers since the beginning of March, leading several to take legal action in an attempt to bankrupt his company.
He currently employs 85 Polish workers who live on a campsite near one of his warehouses in Oss, which stands behind imposing grey gates and ­corrugated shutters.
The father-of-two was said by neighbours to be a “quiet family man”.
One said: “He’s not flash but there’s a quiet, aristocratic air of wealth about him. He's not short of a euro or two.”
Selten faced no action last year when horsemeat contaminated with bute was traced to one of his factories.
It was not until this year that the factory was shut down temporarily and Selten was taken to court in February.
At that point, the focus of the probe was on the drug contamination but it is understood Dutch officials also suspected the trader of mixing meat.
Selten was allowed to re-open the firms and trade again under strict supervision.
Following his court case, Selten was asked by a reporter: “It is said that you are mixing horsemeat with beef. Strangely enough, nothing was said about this today?”
French meat food industrial factory
Selten responded cryptically: “You’re right, I found that strange as well.”
He then admitted mixing horsemeat with fat from beef. He said: “Yes, we’ve processed horsemeat.
"There was also horsemeat mixed with fat from beef, ordered by and in co-operation with a company that delivered the horsemeat.”
Dutch officials said the exact source of the latest suspect meat could not be traced due to a lack of ­paperwork so “its safety cannot be guaranteed” and some “may already have been consumed”.
They have been in contact with our own Food Standards Agency, which believes meat from the trader was sold to British companies.
Asked if horsemeat was being mixed with beef, Selten’s lawyer Frank Peters said: “That’s the theory, but the investigation is ongoing.”
On Tuesday, the FSA said veterinary drug bute had been found in Asda Smart Price Corned Beef.
Asda had already withdrawn tens of thousands of cans of its own brand corned beef last month after it was found to contain up to 50% horsemeat.
The scandal erupted in January when Irish food standards officials announced they found horse in burgers made in Ireland and the UK and sold by stores such as Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
The problems quickly spread across the continent and involved well-known brands including Findus and Nestle
City of London Police fraud experts will lead the probe into a scandal ­ministers described as a “criminal conspiracy which covers 23 countries”.
The Mirror approached Selten, but he refused to comment.
Tesco and Asda both denied having links with him.House belonging to Willy Selten

Safety chiefs gave trader second chance

IT took nine months for officials to take action against Willy Selten after the harmful horse ­tranquiliser bute was found in meat traced to one of his firms.
All the while, the trader was able to sell meat across Europe, which authorities now have serious concerns over.
His factories were shut in February and he faced a short court case, which resulted in him being allowed to trade again – under strict supervision.
A Dutch Food Safety Authority spokeswoman explained: “Our policy in the Netherlands is that ­everybody should be given a second chance.”
But the suspicion is now that Selten’s firms sold ­horsemeat that was relabelled as beef.
That ­suspicion has led to this week’s urgent recall of 50,000 tons of meat across Europe.


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China H7N9 strain bird flu toll reaches 10

Chickens are sold on a street in Shanghai, China, on April 1, 2013. (file photo)


The death toll from the H7N9 strain of bird flu has climbed to ten as another patient infected with the virus loses life in China.


Chinese authorities said the victim, a 74-year-old retired man, fell prey to the infection in Shanghai on Thursday. 

China formally launched a research project on Wednesday for developing a vaccine for the H7N9. 

The project, jointly undertaken by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, aims to produce a vaccine for the virus within the next seven months. 

A total of 38 people in China have been infected by the H7N9 avian influenza. China officially confirmed the occurrence of human infection with the new bird flu virus late last month. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that there is no evidence that the H7N9 virus can spread among human beings. 

The Geneva-based world body has also announced that it plans to send a team of international experts to China to investigate the new bird flu virus. 

The H7N9 bird flu virus is distinct from the H5N1 virus. Since 2003, the H5N1 strain has caused more than 360 confirmed human deaths and tens of millions of birds have died from the virus. 

Link here:http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/11/297726/china-bird-flu-death-toll-reaches-ten/