24 April 2013 (11:12 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Jumada t-Tania 1434/04 Ordibehest 1391/15 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Taiwan has confirmed their first human case of H7N9 ‘bird’ flu.  A 53 years old man became sick three days after returning from a trip to Jiangsu Province on mainland China.

The man says he had no contact with birds!

California governor Jerry Brown was recently in China, as well as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker.  Last week the U.S. CDC warned health officials to be on the lookout for people coming from China who might be infected.

In Japan, researchers have been warning how bad the H7N9 virus is, and now the government is preparing for a pandemic.  Plans are to establish quarantine areas in airports, where compulsory examinations of airline passengers will be conducted.