Tag: Diseases

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Poultry Culls and Vaccine Labs Deployed Against Flu

China’s H7N9 flu outbreak had claimed 6 lives by Saturday, with the number of confirmed cases rising to 16. With the discovery of the virus among live poultry on sale at Shanghai markets, over 20,536 chickens, ducks, geese and pigeons were culled overnight on Thursday, with more to follow as authorities try to contain the disease. At The Wall Street Journal, Josh Chin and Betsy McKay summed u