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Onset of H7N9 avian influenza
It takes the Chinese government six weeks to announce to the public the discovery of a new strain of zoonotic flu. In 2003, the emergence of H5N1 wasn't reported until after tsix month of the virus outbreak. -
First cases reported
Three cases of human infection with H7N9 were reported in Shanghai by Xinhua news agency. -
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Six weeks between the onset and lull of H7N9
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U.S following up closely H7N9
White House spokeswoman, Caitlin Hayden says the White House national security staff is monitoring the outbreak in China. -
No link between Shanghai's dead pig and H7N9
World Health Organization (WHO) says that the 16,000 dead pigs found in Huangpu River earlier in March are not interlinked with the H7N9 avian influenza. -
Students examined about new deadly virus
Tsinghua University in Beijing includes H7N9-related questions in admission exams. -
H7N9 is a mutant virus
The Chinese Academy of Sciences finds that H7N9 is a "hybrid" virus from Korean wild birds and Chinese ducks. -
Consumers advised not to buy fresh chicken
Feng Zijian, head of emergency response at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention advises consumers not to buy frech chicken that are butchered on the spot, Bloomberg reports. -
Pigs not source of flu outbreak
WHO rules infections with H7N9 in pigs and focuses on poultry markets including live bird markets. -
First H7N9 patient discharged from hospital
The four-year-old boy fully recovered and discharged from a hospital in Shanghai. The fate of the rest 32 infected remains unknown. -
H7N9 worse than H5N1
Vietnamese Health Ministry warns that H7N9 virus is more virulent than H5N1. -
New cases of bird flu reported
Reuters reports new cases of bird flu in five bird markets in eastern provinces: Three in Jiangsu, one in Anhui and one in Zhejiang -
Beijing and Henan report new cases
New cases are reported in Beijing and Henan, north of China. Fear from virus expansion outside the Eastern seaboard rises. -
Traditional Chinese Medicine to the rescue
State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine confirms that TCM has been used to treat 24 of the 77 H7N9 cases reported across China. -
H7N9 arrives to Shandong
Shandong reports its first case of infection with H7N9. Media reports suspect H7N9 is heading north-east. -
H7N9 infects in two weeks more than SARS did in 10 years
Ho Pak-leung, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, notes in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that in the two months since it was first detected, the H7N9 flu has already resulted in almost twice as many confirmed infections in China as H5N1 caused there in a decade. -
H7N9 crosses borders, reaches Taiwan
Taiwan confirms first human H7N9 infection, The 53-year-old patient contracted the diseases in Jiangsu. -
H7N9 is one of the most lethal influenza viruses
WHO dubs H7N9 as "one of the most lethal influenza viruses." -
H7N9 heads south
First H7N9 bird flu cases confirmed in Fujian and Jiangxi. Fears the virus might be heading south rise. -
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H7N9-free China?
H7N9 slows without any new confirmed case of human infection with the bird flu. -
H7N9 wanes
Shanghai Municipality and Zhejiang Province end emergency response measures. -
Australia on alert
Australia develops rapid test for H7N9. -
H7N9 wanes
Jiangsu and Shandong, both in eastern China, end emergency response to the H7N9 bird flu. -
H7N9 casualties
According to national health authorities, the final count of casualties include 130 infected of whom 76 fully recovered and discharged, and 37 died. -
H7N9, an airborne virus
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong find that bird flu virus H7N9 can spread through airborne exposure, and not necessarily through contact with infected birds. -
H7N9 resistant to Tamiflu
A new study, published in the Lancet, confirms easy resistance of H7N9 to Tamiflu. Worries surge about having "minimal tools" to fight H7N9 if it starts human-to-human transmission.
