05 April 2013 (16:57 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Jumada l-Ula 1434/16 Farvardin 1391/25 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
In Hong Kong, health officials at Queen Elizabeth Hospital reporting a seven years old girl being admitted with possible H7N9 symptoms. She was in close contact with poultry when she traveled to Shanghai, hospital officials hope to have test results by tonight.
In Shanghai, health officials have been busy killing more than 20000 chickens at a poultry market. At this points they say at least seven chickens have tested positive for H7N9. Samples taken from two other markets are positive as well. Officials say the gene sequence matches samples taken from pigeons earlier in the week.
Shanghai has banned imports of live poultry.