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Two more cases of avian influenza virus (H7N9) died in Shanghai, local media reported on Sunday. Thus, the total number of deaths from the disease rose to 13 and the total number of infected people to 60.
Sunday has been informed that the cases registered in the central Chinese province of Henan. Previously, patients with avian influenza were reported in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiang. The largest number of cases were found in Shanghai — 24 in this metropolis nine patients died.
The day before, after learning that the disease recorded in Beijing, sanvrach chief Gennady Onishchenko urged to impose restrictions on the border between China and Russia.
According to the World Health Organization, bird flu is not transmitted from person to person, the source of infection are the birds. Usually sick people who, for whatever reason had direct contact with live poultry, said «Interfax».
It is with the possibility of mutation and transmission of the disease from one person to the risk associated avian influenza. The danger of a new strain that previously this kind of people are not passed on, so the vaccine there is not anywhere else in the world.