22 April 2013 (09:45 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Jumada t-Tania 1434/02 Ordibehest 1391/13 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Three more cases of human H7N9 reported in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Shandong provinces, China. Another person has been released from hospital, making it 13 who’re considered recovered.  However, they are still being monitored.

In Zhejiang a 54 years old woman who works in an office, apparently no contact with birds, has been hospitalized.  In Jiangxi a 32 years old farmer is also hospitalized.

The first possible case is being reported in Shandong Province, they’re waiting for test results.  It is a 36 years old man.   If the test result is positive he’ll be the 105th human case.

After all the tens of thousands of poultry culling (killing) and testing of birds, the Ministry of Agriculture has managed to find one more bird with the new form of H7N9.  One pigeon at a pigeon farm in Jiangsu Province tested positive.  Researchers are becoming skeptical about the bird connection with this new ‘bird flu’, because of how relatively few birds are being found infected with it.