Although there have only been a few cases so far found in China, it has trigged people’s’ concern. The National Health and Family Commission and top medical experts are answering key questions for the public. has more.

A new type of infectious virus, and we have little knowledge of its virulence and potential for spreading.

Feng Zijian, Director of China Public Health Emergency Center, said, “In the three cases we found, two of them had been related to birds or chickens. But in the third case, he hadn’t left his home for two weeks before he started to get a fever. So based on what we have now, we still don’t know what the source of the infection was.”

That means medical workers can’t tell us yet what we can do to prevent ourselves from being infected. And there are no vaccines against the H7N9 bird flu virus either at home or abroad.

On the website of National Health and Family Planning Commission, the government has posted in detail what they know so far.

The good thing is no cases of human-to-human infection have been found yet.

It says the authorities are closely monitoring the development, gathering resources to treat the patients and investigating the virus.

But only 3 cases have been confirmed of having the H7N9 virus, so the information available for research is very limited.

And why have the deaths of the two patients over 2 weeks ago been released to the public so late? The ministry says it’s because the new disease has yet to be included in the Monitoring and Reporting System of Infectious Diseases.

CCTV reporter Han Peng said, "Over the past decade, the Chinese government has dealt with two major nation-wide outbreaks of infectious diseases. SARS in 2003, and H1N1 flu in 2009. Since then, the country has set up an emergency response system. It’s hoped that this time, if necessary, the government will have a plan to contain the disease and make sure over a billion people across the country will enjoy health and sense of security. "

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