21 April 2013 (21:38 UTC-07 Tango 20 April 2013)/10 Jumada t-Tania 1434/01 Ordibehest 1391/12 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

The UN’s World Heath Organization admitted that several people who got sick were in close contact with other people who were sick, and not in contact with birds.  The UN official was careful with his words: “We’ve not seen easy and sustained person-to-person transmission so far.”-Michael O’Leary, UNWHO

There are now 96 human case of H7N9 in China, at least half have never been in contact with birds.  A 69 years old man died Friday night after emergency treatment failed in Zhejiang Province.

So far no pigs have become sick from H7N9, and of the tens of thousands of birds killed and tested, only about a couple of dozen were positive.