12 April 2013 (20:58 UTC-07 Tango 11 April 2013)/01 Jumada t-Tania 1434/23 Farvardin 1391/03 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Health officials have released details regarding the first three people to die from H7N9.

Fudan University’s Huashan Hospital report: The first person to die was a 52 years old woman, came down with symptoms on 27 March, sought medical help on 28 March.  Doctors put her on anti-biotics and sent her home.  A few days later she returned still sick.  Doctors then put her on intravenous anti-biotics for the next three days.  She got worse, developing pneumonia.  By this time doctors finally diagnosed her with a flu virus. They started anti-viral treatment, but amazingly, continued the anti-biotics!    She died 03 April

My comments: Not only do anti-biotics not work on viruses, they destroy your own body’s immune system.  I wouldn’t be surprised if her death was actually the result of the treatment with anti-biotics.

The woman’s husband was also sick, but tests for infections came up negative, so he was not reported has having H7N9. He recovered.

Comments from Fudan University’s Huashan Hospital doctor Yu-Mei Wen, and doctor Hans-Dieter Klenk from the University of Marburg in Germany: The next two people to die were men, one 87 years old, the other 27.  Realize the H7N9 is being called a bird flu, and tens of thousands of poultry are being exterminated out of fear.  These two men had never been around poultry.  They had been in contact with pigs, but so far all testing on pigs show negative for H7N9.  From the time the men started showing symptoms (chills, fever) to the time of severe pneumonia was five to ten days.

My comments: The details of the first three H7N9 human deaths calls into question the idea that this bird flu (which according to health officials in Thailand is new to continental Asia) ‘jumped’ from birds to humans.  Early on Japanese researchers said this new H7N9 is not detectable until the onset of pneumonia.  Also, testing done on thousands of poultry, and even wild birds in China, since the outbreak began, has only revealed a handful of infected birds.  Bird flu is known to be able to ‘jump’ to pigs more easily than to humans, yet testing done on the thousands of dead pigs that were found in the Huangpu River showed none were infected with H7N9.  Note that the first three human deaths were all in Shanghai, it looks like the famous Chinese city is ground zero for this new virus.