Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Bird Flu Scare Prompts Monitoring of Hundreds in Taiwan After Chinese Tourist's H7N9 Infection

Following a mainland Chinese tourist's hospital admission for the H7N9 strain of bird flu infection, Taiwanese authorities are monitoring hundreds of people who may have had contact with the infected tourist, officials said Wednesday. The 86-year-old man from the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu is in stable condition in hospital in Taiwan, where he was on an eight-day tour, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said in a statement. As many as 500 ...

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