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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

China detains 10 for bird flu rumors, death toll at 9

Chinese police detained at least 10 people for spreading rumors about the H7N9 bird flu virus, state media said on Wednesday, as the death toll from the new strain rose to nine.


Authorities detained the people in six provinces – Shaanxi, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian – some of whom had posted “fake information” online about new cases of the virus in their areas, the official Xinhua news agency said.


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Pete Sweeney and Michael Martina, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/kpUThK6aZQM/

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