Deadly strain ( H7N9 ) spreads to central province as two Shanghai deaths push national toll to 13

BEIJING (AFP) - China’s H7N9 bird flu spread west to the central province of Henan on Sunday, as govt websites and state media reported two deaths and 11 new cases nationwide. The new strain of the flu had been confined to the  city of Shanghai and nearby Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui until Saturday. In total 60 people have been infected and 13 have died of the disease since Chinese authorities announced two weeks ago they had found H7N9 in humans for the first time. Two new cases were reported in Henan on Sunday by Xinhua, as govt websites also announced four new instances in Zhejiang, two in Jiangsu and three in Shanghai along with two deaths in existing cases.

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Nine of the 11 new victims were male and seven of them were in their sixties and seventies. 
The Beijing-based patient was the seven-year-old daughter of poultry traders and her condition had improved.
Experts fear the prospect of such viruses mutating into a form easily transmissible between humans, which would have the potential to trigger a pandemic.
But the World Health Organization (WHO) said last week there was as yet no evidence of human-to-human transmission of H7N9.

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