CHINESE researchers have confirmed poultry as a source of H7N9 flu among humans but said they have not found any evidence of person-to-person transmission.
A report in The Lancet, a medical journal, yesterday said a probe into four cases of human H7N9 influenza in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province showed that all the patients had been exposed to poultry, either through their occupation or by visiting wet poultry markets.
The World Health Organization had previously said poultry were the likely source of the virus, which has been linked to at least 22 deaths out of more than 100 identified cases since February.
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