Bird Flu Claims Another Life In Hong Kong

Revelation 6:7,8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.

The H7N9 bird flu has claimed another victim in Hong Kong.

The death marks the third death in the city since the arrival of the virus from China.  The male victim, who has recently visited the Chinese city of Shenzhen, was admitted to the hospital less than 24 hours before he died.

The World Health Organization has been quietly using a new term when talking about transmission of the virus between humans.  Studies of cases in China show that it is possible to transfer the virus between people so the term “sustained human-to-human transmission” is being used meaning that they don’t see infections happening on a mass scale.

The changes have happened since the virus was spotted in both Taiwan and Hong Kong, raising fears the virus is making its way out of China toward emerging nations that are not ready to handle the deadly virus.

The H7N9 virus was discovered last week at a Hong Kong market resulting in the slaughter of 20,000 birds.

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