Stronger Precautions Urged for Bird Flu
CHINA - Two international organizations have stressed the high possibility of human-to-human transmission of the H7N9 virus, which saw the biggest outbreak in China over the past winter since first being reported in China in 2013.
24 March 2017
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By: The organizations urged the Chinese government to take more precautionary measures to prevent a possible bird flu epidemic.
"Experts agree that it is not a question of if, but when the virus will adapt in ways that facilitate efficient, sustained human-to-human transmission," according to a joint statement on Thursday from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
