UPDATED RAPID RISK ASSESSMENT Severe respiratory disease associated with a novel type A influenza virus, A(H7N9) – China
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On 31 March 2013, Chinese authorities announced the identification of a novel reassortant A(H7N9) influenza virus isolated from three unlinked cases of severe respiratory disease in eastern China; two in Shanghai and one in Anhui province. The type A influenza viruses initially isolated from the three cases could not be subtyped and had therefore been sent to the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where they were sequenced and found to be almost identical and considered to be of avian origin. This is the first time that human infection with avian influenza virus A(H7N9) has been identified.
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