04 April 2013 (12:43 UTC-07 Tango)/23 Jumada l-Ula 1434/15 Farvardin 1391/24 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711

Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases has released a statement after their quick research on the new H7N9 virus.  It’s not your typical bird flu.

H7N9 infect cells inside your nose, throat and upper part of your respiratory tract. H7N9 can rapidly multiply in your nose.  Bird flus normally don’t infect/multiply until they hit your lungs.

The Japanese researchers say because of the gene sequence it means that this new ‘bird flu’ actually has a low probability of infecting birds (which implies that the poultry culling & poultry bans taking place now are useless).

They still don’t know how the new H7N9 causes deadly pneumonia.

Yesterday the UN World Health Organization said they were testing existing vaccines in hopes of finding one that would work.  The Japanese researchers say they are wasting time, because of the unique gene sequence, they insist efforts must be focuses on a new vaccine, as the U.S. CDC announced a couple of days ago.