INQUIRER.net: H7N9 bird flu kills about 1/3 hospitalized patients – study

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H7N9 bird flu kills about 1/3 hospitalized patients – study Jun 24th 2013, 00:27 PARIS – The H7N9 bird flu that hit China this year killed over a third of hospitalized patients, said researchers Monday who labelled the virus "less serious" but probably more widespread than previously thought.   They warned watchdogs not to take comfort from a lull in new infections, as the virus may reappear in the autumn.   In what they described as the most complete picture of the virus' severity, researchers in Beijing and Hong Kong found that H7N9 proved fatal in 36 percent of patients admitted to hospital in mainland China.   This was a lower fatality rate than H5N1-type bird flu which emerged in 2003 and killed about 60 percent of hospital... Keep on reading: H7N9 bird flu kills about 1/3 hospitalized patients – study Media files: bird-flu.png (image/jpeg)

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