12 hours ago - China Won't Share Its Samples of a Deadly Flu Virus. ... To protect people against the next flu pandemic, scientists need to know what flu strains are circulating and how they are changing.But such efforts can be stymied if countries don't share flu samples, and now, the Chinese ...
China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus - The New ...https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/health/china-flu-virus-samples.html
1 day ago - Despite an international agreement, U.S. health authorities still have not received H7N9avian flu specimens from their Chinese counterparts. ... For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of a rapidly evolving influenza virus from the United States — specimens ...
3 hours ago - US health experts are alarmed and outraged that the Chinese government appears to be withholding samples of the deadly, rapidly evolving bird flu virus, H7N9 ...
32 mins ago - China allegedly refusing to supply samples of a bird flu to researchers could lead to ... And this strain of flu prevalent in birds, called H7N9, is particularly fatal, ...
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China refuses to provide H7N9 avian influenza virus sample to the United States EMILY BAUMGAERTNER August 28, 2018 "For over a year, the Chinese ...
11 hours ago - While H7N9 activity in China has been greatly suppressed these past 12 months (see chart above) - likely due to an aggressive national poultry vaccination ...
22 hours ago - China's disinterest in sharing #H7N9 viruses predates this US administration, so clearly isn't about the current US-China trade war. But those tensions are ...