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Main Category: Bird Flu / Avian Flu Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Respiratory / Asthma Article Date: 17 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT A novel avian-origin reassortant influenza A virus emerged in China in February 2013, and is associated with severe lower respiratory tract diseases.

Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organisation said on Friday.

Since 8 May 2013, no new laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A have been reported to WHO by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, China.

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The country had reported an outbreak in its southern part Tibet, where a child has died and 64 other children remain infected.

There are long-standing concerns that a small number of people develop a paralytic illness after getting a flu shot.

A 31-year-old woman waves as she leaves a hospital in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, after making a full recovery from the H7N9 bird flu virus.

Worries over the latest strain of bird flu in China are deterring Singaporeans from travelling there for holidays.

Although the rise in cases of the H7N9 bird flu in China seems to have slowed, health officials are developing a vaccine against the virus, and will test it in a clinical trial, experts say.

On 31 March 2013, the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission announced human cases of novel H7N9 influenza virus infections.

China Development Bank , the country's policy lender, said on Tuesday that it has issued emergency loans worth 116 million yuan to help poultry firms cope with the impact of the H7N9 influenza.

Another fatal case caused by avian influenza H7N9 has been reported in China, the Committee on Health of Hunan Province said Wednesday.

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In this regard, KCNA had an interview with Pak Myong Su, director of the State Sanitary Inspection Board under the DPRK Ministry of Public Health, and Jon Sung Hun, manager of the Korea Pugang Pharmaceutic Co., Ltd.

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